Frost history / Castleton 2 S, IN
Castleton 2 S, IN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00121326, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 824 ft, 39.880, -86.051. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 24 | Oct 22 |
| Earliest | Apr 3 (2019) | Oct 7 (2012) |
| Latest | May 10 (2021) | Nov 12 (2016) |
| Trend | 0.9 days later per decade | 1.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 15 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.
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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 16 | Oct 24 | Apr 12 | Nov 9 |
| 2024 | Apr 22 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Nov 21 |
| 2023 | Apr 24 | Oct 30 | Apr 24 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 19 | Oct 18 | Apr 10 | Nov 12 |
| 2021 | May 10 | Nov 1 | Apr 21 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | May 9 | Oct 16 | May 9 | Oct 31 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Oct 18 | Apr 1 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 30 | Oct 16 | Apr 16 | Oct 21 |
| 2017 | May 8 | Oct 26 | Mar 23 | Nov 9 |
| 2016 | Apr 13 | Nov 12 | Apr 9 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 4 | Nov 14 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Oct 30 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 |
| 2013 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 2012 | Apr 24 | Oct 7 | Apr 11 | Nov 4 |
| 2011 | Apr 21 | Oct 22 | Apr 1 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | no data | Oct 22 | no data | Nov 6 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.