Baxter, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00150450, 1952 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,164 ft, 36.858, -83.330. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 19	Oct 24
Earliest	Mar 28 (2010)	Sep 30 (2003)
Latest	May 27 (1961)	Nov 13 (1986)
Trend	2.7 days earlier per decade	0.7 days later per decade
Years with data	60	61

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 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.

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
2015	Apr 25	Oct 18	Mar 30	Nov 14
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Apr 17	Nov 2
2013	Apr 6	Oct 26	Apr 4	Oct 26
2012	Apr 25	Nov 3	Apr 13	Nov 14
2011	Apr 7	Oct 30	Mar 13	Nov 11
2010	Mar 28	no data	Mar 8	no data
2009	Apr 9	Nov 4	Mar 22	Nov 28
2008	Apr 17	Oct 23	Mar 26	Oct 29
2007	Apr 14	Oct 30	Apr 10	Nov 7
2006	Apr 11	Oct 13	Mar 28	Oct 25
2005	no data	Oct 29	no data	Nov 11
2004	Apr 16	Nov 6	Mar 24	Nov 26
2003	Mar 31	Sep 30	Mar 31	Nov 14
2002	no data	Nov 1	no data	Nov 1
2001	Apr 19	Oct 17	Apr 2	Oct 27
2000	Apr 11	Oct 7	Mar 19	Nov 17
1999	Apr 20	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 4
1998	Apr 7	Oct 23	Mar 16	Nov 7
1997	Apr 17	Oct 23	Apr 16	Oct 23
1996	Apr 18	Oct 19	Apr 11	Nov 3
1995	Apr 6	Oct 24	Mar 19	Nov 4
1994	Apr 9	Oct 27	Mar 30	Nov 23
1993	Apr 24	Oct 26	Mar 19	Nov 2
1992	Apr 29	Oct 20	Apr 4	Nov 9
1991	Apr 2	Nov 3	Apr 1	Nov 3
1990	Apr 19	Oct 27	Apr 13	Nov 13
1989	May 8	Oct 21	Apr 14	Nov 4
1988	Apr 30	Oct 12	Apr 20	Oct 13
1987	Apr 11	no data	Apr 5	no data
1986	Apr 25	Nov 13	Apr 24	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Nov 8	Apr 10	Nov 10
1984	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 7
1983	May 11	Nov 5	Apr 22	Nov 14
1982	Apr 25	no data	Apr 11	no data
1981	Apr 8	Oct 20	Mar 26	Oct 24
1980	Apr 18	Oct 13	Mar 24	Oct 26
1979	Apr 8	Oct 14	Apr 8	Nov 15
1978	May 3	Oct 8	Mar 31	Nov 29
1977	May 13	Oct 17	May 13	Nov 12
1976	Apr 28	Oct 10	Apr 14	Oct 18
1975	Apr 14	Oct 31	Apr 14	Nov 15
1974	Apr 26	Oct 3	Apr 11	Oct 21
1973	Apr 29	Nov 6	Apr 15	Nov 10
1972	Apr 28	Oct 20	Apr 10	Nov 24
1971	May 5	Nov 4	Apr 12	Nov 5
1970	Apr 12	Oct 17	Apr 9	Nov 17
1969	May 1	Oct 18	Apr 2	Oct 18
1968	May 7	Oct 5	Apr 3	Oct 27
1967	Apr 29	Oct 20	Mar 23	Oct 22
1966	May 11	Oct 27	Apr 11	Nov 4
1965	Apr 4	Oct 25	Apr 4	Oct 25
1964	Apr 11	Oct 8	Apr 10	Oct 11
1963	May 2	Oct 30	Apr 15	Oct 30
1962	Apr 21	Oct 24	Apr 21	Oct 24
1961	May 27	Oct 27	Apr 9	Oct 27
1960	Apr 20	Oct 22	Apr 12	Oct 25
1959	Apr 25	Nov 3	Mar 24	Nov 3
1958	Apr 15	Oct 29	Apr 9	Oct 31
1957	Apr 16	Oct 20	Apr 16	Oct 28
1956	Apr 26	Nov 9	Apr 22	Nov 10
1955	Apr 10	Oct 25	Apr 1	Oct 25
1954	May 10	Oct 19	Apr 3	Oct 31
1953	Apr 23	Oct 8	Apr 22	Nov 7
1952	no data	Oct 18	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.