Frost history / Crawfordsville 6 Se, IN
Crawfordsville 6 Se, IN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00121873, 1982 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 836 ft, 40.003, -86.801. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 29 | Oct 11 |
| Earliest | Apr 9 (1987) | Sep 20 (1991) |
| Latest | Jun 1 (2003) | Oct 31 (2023) |
| Trend | 3.7 days earlier per decade | 4.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 36 | 36 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.
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 13 | Oct 23 | Apr 13 | Oct 24 |
| 2024 | Apr 26 | Oct 17 | Apr 7 | Oct 17 |
| 2023 | Apr 27 | Oct 31 | Apr 25 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 28 | Oct 5 | Apr 18 | Oct 9 |
| 2021 | May 13 | Oct 27 | Apr 22 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 5 | May 10 | Oct 5 |
| 2019 | Apr 22 | Oct 12 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 29 | Oct 12 | Apr 29 | Oct 18 |
| 2017 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 2016 | Apr 13 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2015 | Apr 29 | Oct 17 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 |
| 2014 | Apr 24 | Oct 22 | Apr 16 | Oct 31 |
| 2013 | Apr 22 | Oct 22 | Apr 21 | Oct 22 |
| 2012 | Apr 27 | Sep 25 | Apr 12 | Oct 8 |
| 2011 | May 5 | Oct 2 | Apr 2 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | Apr 29 | Oct 4 | Apr 28 | Oct 22 |
| 2009 | Apr 13 | Oct 11 | Apr 9 | Oct 18 |
| 2008 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | Apr 17 | Oct 28 | Apr 11 | Nov 2 |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | Oct 12 | Apr 10 | Oct 15 |
| 2005 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 2004 | May 4 | no data | Apr 15 | no data |
| 2003 | Jun 1 | Sep 20 | Apr 24 | Sep 30 |
| 2002 | May 22 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2001 | May 14 | Oct 6 | May 13 | Oct 7 |
| 2000 | Apr 29 | Oct 7 | Apr 13 | Oct 7 |
| 1999 | Apr 25 | Sep 22 | Mar 31 | Sep 22 |
| 1998 | Apr 19 | Oct 14 | Apr 6 | Oct 23 |
| 1997 | May 23 | Oct 15 | May 16 | Oct 15 |
| 1996 | May 15 | Oct 4 | Apr 18 | Oct 11 |
| 1995 | May 4 | Sep 23 | Apr 15 | Sep 23 |
| 1994 | May 3 | Oct 10 | May 2 | Oct 10 |
| 1993 | May 20 | Sep 30 | Apr 23 | Sep 30 |
| 1992 | May 8 | Sep 29 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 |
| 1991 | no data | Sep 20 | no data | Sep 20 |
| 1990 | Apr 19 | Oct 19 | Apr 19 | Oct 19 |
| 1989 | May 8 | Sep 24 | Apr 13 | Oct 9 |
| 1988 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 6 |
| 1987 | Apr 9 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 1983 | May 27 | no data | Apr 20 | no data |
| 1982 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 21 |
"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.