Dodge City, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013985, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,590 ft, 37.761, -99.968. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 21	Oct 20
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 21 (1995)
Latest	May 14 (2004)	Nov 14 (1965)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data	74	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

First fall frost (32°F)

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2024	Apr 21	Oct 16	Mar 27	Nov 25
2023	Apr 23	Oct 7	Apr 6	Oct 28
2022	Apr 25	Oct 17	Apr 14	Nov 11
2021	Apr 22	Nov 1	Apr 21	Nov 12
2020	Apr 17	Oct 23	Apr 15	Oct 23
2019	Apr 19	Oct 11	Apr 14	Oct 11
2018	Apr 19	Oct 14	Apr 16	Oct 15
2017	Apr 30	Oct 22	Mar 15	Oct 27
2016	Apr 2	Oct 7	Apr 2	Nov 12
2015	Apr 20	Oct 29	Apr 10	Nov 19
2014	May 2	Oct 31	Apr 15	Nov 10
2013	May 5	Oct 18	May 4	Nov 11
2012	Mar 10	Oct 7	Mar 9	Oct 25
2011	Apr 16	Oct 20	Apr 16	Nov 2
2010	May 8	Oct 28	Apr 3	Nov 5
2009	Apr 10	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 10
2008	May 11	Oct 24	Apr 1	Oct 27
2007	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 12	Nov 1
2006	Apr 26	Oct 18	Apr 26	Oct 22
2005	May 2	Oct 23	Mar 27	Oct 24
2004	May 14	Nov 2	Apr 13	Nov 2
2003	Apr 9	Oct 25	Apr 9	Oct 26
2002	Apr 5	Oct 13	Apr 4	Oct 24
2001	Apr 17	Oct 6	Apr 17	Nov 8
2000	Apr 17	Sep 25	Apr 16	Oct 7
1999	Apr 17	Oct 4	Apr 17	Oct 18
1998	Apr 22	Nov 10	Apr 17	Nov 11
1997	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 26
1996	Apr 15	Oct 18	Apr 6	Oct 18
1995	Apr 27	Sep 21	Apr 11	Oct 24
1994	May 1	Oct 25	Apr 29	Nov 5
1993	Apr 21	Oct 10	Apr 16	Oct 27
1992	Apr 26	Oct 16	Apr 3	Oct 16
1991	Mar 30	Oct 5	Mar 30	Oct 19
1990	Apr 30	Oct 10	Apr 12	Oct 18
1989	May 1	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 18
1988	Apr 23	Oct 28	Apr 10	Oct 28
1987	Apr 4	Oct 20	Apr 3	Nov 9
1986	Apr 16	Oct 12	Apr 14	Nov 9
1985	Apr 5	Sep 29	Mar 31	Oct 31
1984	Apr 30	Sep 30	Mar 30	Nov 2
1983	Apr 16	Nov 9	Apr 15	Nov 10
1982	Apr 21	Oct 20	Apr 21	Oct 20
1981	May 10	Oct 23	Mar 19	Oct 23
1980	Apr 14	Oct 17	Apr 14	Oct 24
1979	May 11	Oct 21	Apr 6	Nov 1
1978	Apr 25	Oct 26	Apr 11	Nov 14
1977	Apr 5	Oct 11	Apr 4	Nov 9
1976	Apr 4	Oct 16	Apr 4	Oct 16
1975	Apr 12	Oct 24	Apr 11	Oct 24
1974	Apr 16	Oct 15	Apr 16	Nov 12
1973	Apr 27	Nov 2	Apr 16	Nov 3
1972	Apr 4	Oct 18	Apr 4	Oct 19
1971	May 12	Oct 28	Apr 6	Nov 6
1970	Apr 14	Oct 8	Apr 14	Nov 2
1969	Apr 28	Oct 13	Mar 30	Oct 14
1968	Apr 8	Oct 24	Apr 8	Nov 10
1967	May 2	Oct 25	May 2	Nov 3
1966	May 13	Oct 15	Apr 21	Oct 15
1965	Apr 28	Nov 14	Mar 30	Nov 18
1964	Apr 8	Oct 19	Apr 8	Oct 19
1963	Apr 23	Nov 1	Mar 17	Nov 1
1962	Apr 2	Oct 29	Apr 2	Nov 5
1961	Apr 17	Oct 23	Apr 12	Nov 2
1960	Apr 30	Oct 20	Mar 25	Nov 9
1959	Apr 22	Oct 27	Apr 22	Oct 27
1958	Apr 7	Nov 5	Mar 25	Nov 17
1957	Apr 14	Oct 24	Apr 14	Oct 25
1956	Apr 29	Nov 3	Apr 10	Nov 3
1955	Apr 4	Oct 24	Mar 28	Oct 30
1954	May 3	Oct 15	Apr 3	Oct 31
1953	May 14	Nov 6	Apr 20	Nov 19
1952	Apr 14	Oct 7	Apr 10	Oct 15
1951	Apr 22	Oct 19	Apr 16	Oct 31

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.