Last Frost Day

Frost history / Elnora, IN

Elnora, IN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00122620, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 480 ft, 38.870, -87.092. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 16Oct 22
EarliestMar 30 (2010)Oct 5 (2010)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 12 (2016)
Trend9.1 days later per decade4.2 days later per decade
Years with data1517

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202010: Mar 302011: Mar 312012: Apr 122013: Apr 252014: Apr 162015: Apr 242016: Apr 122017: Apr 82018: Apr 292019: Apr 22020: May 92021: Apr 212022: Apr 192023: Apr 242024: Apr 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202009: Oct 182010: Oct 52011: Oct 292012: Oct 82013: Oct 222014: Oct 302015: Oct 172016: Nov 122017: Oct 302018: Oct 162019: Nov 12020: Oct 52021: Nov 32022: Oct 182023: Oct 312024: Oct 172025: Oct 24

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
2025no dataOct 24no dataNov 10
2024Apr 6Oct 17Mar 28Nov 26
2023Apr 24Oct 31Mar 20Oct 31
2022Apr 19Oct 18Apr 2Oct 20
2021Apr 21Nov 3Apr 2Nov 3
2020May 9Oct 5Apr 16Nov 2
2019Apr 2Nov 1Apr 1Nov 1
2018Apr 29Oct 16Apr 8Oct 21
2017Apr 8Oct 30Mar 16Nov 10
2016Apr 12Nov 12Apr 9Nov 13
2015Apr 24Oct 17Mar 29Oct 18
2014Apr 16Oct 30Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 25Oct 22Apr 3Oct 25
2012Apr 12Oct 8Apr 11Nov 1
2011Mar 31Oct 29Mar 31Nov 11
2010Mar 30Oct 5Mar 7Oct 29
2009no dataOct 18no dataDec 1

"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.