Beaver Dam, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00150490, 1951 to 2003, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 400 ft, 37.453, -86.912. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 20	Oct 15
Earliest	Mar 22 (1967)	Sep 23 (1998)
Latest	May 23 (2002)	Nov 12 (1986)
Trend	1.4 days earlier per decade	0.5 days later per decade
Years with data	51	53

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 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
2003	Apr 28	Oct 3	Apr 28	Nov 14
2002	May 23	Nov 2	Mar 23	Nov 2
2001	Apr 18	Oct 7	Mar 28	Oct 17
2000	Apr 9	Oct 7	Apr 9	Oct 10
1999	Mar 28	Sep 30	Mar 28	Oct 25
1998	Apr 30	Sep 23	Apr 11	Nov 7
1997	Apr 18	Oct 22	Apr 14	Oct 22
1996	Apr 10	Oct 19	Apr 10	Oct 19
1995	Apr 5	Oct 25	Apr 5	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Oct 26	Apr 7	Oct 27
1993	Apr 22	Oct 22	Apr 3	Oct 28
1992	Apr 5	Oct 19	Apr 5	Oct 19
1991	Mar 31	Oct 7	Mar 31	Oct 16
1990	Apr 18	Oct 16	Apr 12	Oct 29
1989	May 3	Oct 9	May 3	Oct 9
1988	Apr 29	Oct 8	Apr 20	Oct 13
1987	Apr 5	Oct 4	Apr 5	Oct 8
1986	Apr 23	Nov 12	Apr 23	Nov 13
1985	Apr 10	Nov 8	Apr 10	Nov 21
1984	Apr 2	Nov 7	Mar 12	Nov 13
1983	Apr 21	Oct 26	Apr 21	Nov 5
1982	Apr 11	Oct 22	Apr 10	Nov 6
1981	Apr 6	Oct 24	Mar 24	Oct 24
1980	Apr 16	Oct 5	Mar 22	Oct 26
1979	Apr 29	Oct 24	Mar 26	Nov 3
1978	Apr 22	Oct 8	Mar 18	Nov 8
1977	Mar 25	Oct 12	Mar 23	Oct 17
1976	May 4	Oct 18	Apr 13	Oct 18
1975	Apr 13	Oct 31	Apr 12	Nov 14
1974	Apr 9	Oct 3	Mar 25	Oct 3
1973	Apr 14	Nov 6	Apr 14	Nov 6
1972	Apr 27	Oct 26	Apr 9	Oct 26
1971	May 4	Nov 4	Apr 8	Nov 4
1970	Apr 7	Oct 4	Apr 7	Nov 16
1969	Apr 20	Oct 15	Mar 31	Oct 18
1968	May 6	Oct 4	Mar 25	Oct 5
1967	Mar 22	Sep 29	Mar 22	Oct 11
1966	May 10	Oct 7	Apr 10	Oct 27
1965	Apr 1	Sep 25	Mar 27	Oct 25
1964	no data	Oct 6	no data	Oct 10
1963	May 2	Oct 30	May 1	Oct 30
1962	Apr 20	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 24
1961	Apr 29	Oct 15	Apr 11	Oct 27
1960	May 2	Oct 21	Apr 10	Oct 21
1959	Apr 23	Oct 18	Apr 14	Oct 28
1958	Apr 12	Oct 11	Apr 8	Oct 30
1957	May 6	Oct 12	Apr 15	Oct 20
1956	Apr 21	Oct 8	Apr 19	Nov 9
1955	no data	Oct 25	no data	Oct 25
1954	May 10	Oct 21	Apr 2	Oct 30
1953	Apr 21	Oct 8	Mar 27	Oct 30
1952	Apr 7	Oct 3	Mar 28	Oct 7
1951	Apr 23	Oct 9	Apr 17	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.