Shoals 8 S, IN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00128036, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 477 ft, 38.553, -86.794. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 23	Oct 15
Earliest	Mar 29 (2024)	Sep 22 (1983)
Latest	May 28 (1961)	Nov 5 (2016)
Trend	1.9 days earlier per decade	0.9 days later per decade
Years with data	73	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 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.

Chart

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 9	Oct 24	Apr 8	Nov 10
2024	Mar 29	Oct 17	Mar 1	Nov 30
2023	Apr 24	Oct 31	Mar 21	Oct 31
2022	Apr 10	Oct 19	Apr 2	Oct 20
2021	Apr 22	Nov 3	Apr 2	Nov 19
2020	May 10	Oct 16	Apr 17	Nov 2
2019	Apr 2	Oct 13	Apr 1	Nov 3
2018	May 1	Oct 18	Apr 18	Oct 21
2017	Apr 9	Oct 27	Mar 18	Nov 11
2016	Apr 14	Nov 5	Apr 10	Nov 12
2015	Apr 25	Oct 17	Mar 29	Oct 17
2014	Apr 17	Oct 5	Apr 16	Nov 2
2013	May 14	Oct 22	Apr 26	Oct 25
2012	Apr 14	Oct 8	Apr 13	Oct 11
2011	Apr 2	Oct 2	Apr 1	Oct 22
2010	Apr 19	Oct 4	Mar 28	Oct 6
2009	Apr 23	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 18
2008	Apr 30	Oct 4	Apr 16	Oct 28
2007	Apr 20	Oct 29	Apr 11	Oct 29
2006	Apr 27	Oct 12	Apr 9	Oct 14
2004	Apr 15	no data	Apr 5	no data
2003	Apr 24	Oct 2	Apr 1	Nov 8
2002	Apr 11	Nov 2	Apr 6	Nov 2
2001	Apr 19	Oct 7	Apr 19	Oct 28
2000	Apr 13	Oct 7	Apr 10	Oct 9
1999	Apr 14	Oct 18	Mar 29	Oct 25
1998	Apr 11	Oct 22	Mar 25	Nov 5
1997	May 17	Oct 18	Apr 19	Oct 22
1996	Apr 18	Oct 19	Apr 18	Oct 21
1995	Apr 12	no data	Apr 6	no data
1994	no data	Oct 25	no data	Oct 27
1993	Apr 23	Oct 22	Apr 23	Nov 1
1992	May 6	Oct 17	Apr 6	Oct 19
1991	Apr 23	Oct 7	Apr 1	Oct 16
1990	Apr 19	Oct 19	Apr 18	Oct 26
1989	May 12	Oct 19	Apr 12	Nov 1
1988	May 1	Oct 6	Apr 21	Oct 8
1987	Apr 11	Oct 4	Apr 5	Oct 8
1986	Apr 24	Oct 15	Apr 24	Nov 10
1985	Apr 11	Oct 2	Apr 10	Nov 21
1984	Apr 21	Oct 2	Apr 7	Nov 7
1983	Apr 26	Sep 22	Apr 21	Nov 5
1982	Apr 25	Oct 17	Apr 24	Oct 22
1981	Apr 7	Oct 3	Mar 26	Oct 24
1980	May 10	Oct 5	Mar 23	Oct 7
1979	Apr 30	Oct 13	Apr 7	Oct 15
1978	May 3	Oct 8	Apr 23	Nov 8
1977	Apr 26	Oct 13	Mar 25	Oct 17
1976	May 13	Oct 10	May 5	Oct 18
1975	Apr 22	Oct 3	Apr 13	Nov 14
1974	May 8	Oct 2	Apr 10	Oct 21
1973	Apr 15	Oct 17	Apr 15	Nov 6
1972	Apr 27	Oct 20	Apr 10	Oct 20
1971	May 5	Nov 4	Apr 8	Nov 7
1970	May 4	Oct 17	Apr 8	Nov 16
1969	Apr 26	Oct 16	Apr 1	Oct 18
1968	May 7	Oct 4	Mar 25	Oct 26
1967	May 4	Oct 11	Mar 23	Oct 11
1966	May 11	Oct 2	May 10	Oct 26
1965	Apr 3	Oct 24	Mar 29	Oct 25
1964	Apr 10	Oct 6	Apr 9	Oct 7
1963	May 2	Oct 14	May 1	Oct 30
1962	Apr 21	Oct 24	Apr 20	Oct 24
1961	May 28	Oct 15	Apr 16	Oct 27
1960	May 13	Oct 20	Apr 11	Oct 21
1959	Apr 23	Oct 18	Mar 28	Oct 28
1958	May 7	Oct 2	Apr 8	Oct 31
1957	May 5	Oct 11	Apr 15	Oct 28
1956	Apr 24	Oct 27	Apr 19	Nov 9
1955	Apr 9	Oct 25	Apr 8	Oct 25
1954	May 10	Oct 18	Apr 2	Oct 31
1953	Apr 20	Oct 8	Apr 19	Oct 30
1952	Apr 17	Oct 3	Mar 28	Oct 7
1951	Apr 23	Oct 9	Mar 31	Nov 3

"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.