Last Frost Day

Frost history / Cannelton, IN

Cannelton, IN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00121256, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 402 ft, 37.899, -86.707. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 31Nov 2
EarliestMar 6 (2012)Oct 22 (2018)
LatestApr 18 (2018)Dec 3 (2015)
Trend7.0 days later per decade1.1 days later per decade
Years with data1515

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.

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 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 3020202011: Mar 282012: Mar 62013: Apr 42014: Mar 312015: Mar 302016: Apr 62017: Mar 202018: Apr 182019: Apr 22020: Apr 162021: Apr 52022: Mar 302023: Mar 312024: Mar 202025: Apr 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 1120202011: Nov 112012: Nov 22013: Oct 262014: Nov 22015: Dec 32016: Nov 212017: Nov 112018: Oct 222019: Nov 12020: Nov 12021: Nov 12022: Nov 122023: Oct 312024: Nov 222025: Nov 10

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
2025Apr 9Nov 10Mar 3Nov 11
2024Mar 20Nov 22Mar 1Nov 30
2023Mar 31Oct 31Mar 21Nov 28
2022Mar 30Nov 12Mar 14Nov 19
2021Apr 5Nov 1Feb 22Nov 24
2020Apr 16Nov 1Mar 8Dec 1
2019Apr 2Nov 1Mar 7Nov 8
2018Apr 18Oct 22Apr 8Nov 10
2017Mar 20Nov 11Mar 17Dec 8
2016Apr 6Nov 21Feb 19Nov 22
2015Mar 30Dec 3Mar 29Dec 4
2014Mar 31Nov 2Mar 27Nov 13
2013Apr 4Oct 26Mar 29Nov 13
2012Mar 6Nov 2Mar 6Nov 24
2011Mar 28Nov 11Mar 2Dec 2

"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.