Last Frost Day

Frost history / Lincoln 11 Sw, NE

Lincoln 11 Sw, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00094996, 2002 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,372 ft, 40.695, -96.854. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 23Oct 13
EarliestApr 8 (2010)Oct 2 (2004)
LatestMay 16 (2014)Oct 27 (2023)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)1.2 days later per decade
Years with data2222

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 and the median first fall date is Oct 27.

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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202003: Apr 92004: May 32005: May 22006: Apr 262007: Apr 132008: Apr 262009: Apr 282010: Apr 82011: Apr 242012: Apr 102013: May 32014: May 162015: Apr 222016: Apr 122017: Apr 272018: Apr 192019: Apr 142020: Apr 172021: Apr 222022: Apr 262023: May 32024: Apr 21

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202002: Oct 132003: Oct 262004: Oct 22005: Oct 62006: Oct 112007: Oct 262008: Oct 162009: Oct 32010: Oct 32011: Oct 192012: Oct 62013: Oct 192014: Oct 112015: Oct 162016: Oct 122017: Oct 112018: Oct 142020: Oct 42021: Oct 222022: Oct 72023: Oct 272024: Oct 14

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

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2024Apr 21Oct 14Apr 21Oct 16
2023May 3Oct 27Apr 23Oct 28
2022Apr 26Oct 7Apr 19Oct 18
2021Apr 22Oct 22Apr 22Nov 13
2020Apr 17Oct 4Apr 17Oct 23
2019Apr 14no dataApr 14no data
2018Apr 19Oct 14Apr 19Oct 15
2017Apr 27Oct 11Apr 27Oct 27
2016Apr 12Oct 12Apr 9Nov 12
2015Apr 22Oct 16Apr 22Oct 29
2014May 16Oct 11Apr 15Oct 31
2013May 3Oct 19Apr 24Nov 10
2012Apr 10Oct 6Mar 9Oct 6
2011Apr 24Oct 19Mar 28Oct 20
2010Apr 8Oct 3Mar 22Nov 2
2009Apr 28Oct 3Apr 11Oct 10
2008Apr 26Oct 16Apr 14Oct 27
2007Apr 13Oct 26Apr 9Nov 3
2006Apr 26Oct 11Mar 26Oct 12
2005May 2Oct 6Mar 27Oct 7
2004May 3Oct 2Apr 13Nov 3
2003Apr 9Oct 26Apr 9Oct 26
2002no dataOct 13no dataOct 23

"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.