Frost history / Beattyville 4N, KY
Beattyville 4N, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00150483, 2002 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,080 ft, 37.634, -83.716. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 15 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Mar 24 (2017) | Oct 3 (2003) |
| Latest | May 10 (2020) | Nov 17 (2024) |
| Trend | 3.1 days earlier per decade | 4.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 18 | 19 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 1 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)
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 | no data | Mar 22 | no data |
| 2024 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Apr 20 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Oct 27 | Apr 22 | Nov 6 |
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 17 | Apr 15 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | no data | Apr 1 | no data |
| 2018 | Apr 20 | no data | Apr 8 | no data |
| 2017 | Mar 24 | Oct 26 | Mar 19 | Oct 30 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 10 | Apr 10 | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 15 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Nov 1 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 7 | Oct 25 | Apr 7 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 13 | Nov 1 | Apr 12 | Nov 1 |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 22 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Apr 28 | Oct 23 | Mar 8 | Oct 31 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 18 | Mar 5 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 29 | Mar 26 | Oct 29 |
| 2007 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Nov 8 |
| 2006 | no data | Oct 13 | no data | Oct 25 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 28 | Mar 18 | Oct 29 |
| 2004 | May 5 | Nov 9 | Mar 24 | Nov 26 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Oct 3 | Apr 1 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 2 |
"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.