Frost history / Booneville 12SW, KY
Booneville 12SW, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00150860, 2003 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 880 ft, 37.358, -83.771. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 1 | Oct 17 |
| Earliest | Apr 14 (2016) | Oct 2 (2003) |
| Latest | May 19 (2009) | Oct 24 (2005) |
| Trend | 3.0 days earlier per decade | 2.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 17 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | May 11 | Oct 17 | May 9 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 16 | no data | Apr 2 | no data |
| 2018 | May 1 | Oct 19 | Apr 30 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | May 9 | Oct 17 | Apr 9 | Oct 27 |
| 2016 | Apr 14 | Oct 23 | Apr 14 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 | Apr 25 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | Apr 24 | Oct 5 | Apr 18 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | May 14 | Oct 21 | Apr 4 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 25 | Oct 11 | Apr 24 | Nov 3 |
| 2011 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | May 11 | Oct 6 | Mar 28 | Oct 22 |
| 2009 | May 19 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 18 | Apr 17 | Oct 18 |
| 2007 | Apr 18 | Oct 13 | Apr 14 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | no data | Oct 13 | no data | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | May 5 | Oct 24 | Mar 22 | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | May 5 | Oct 18 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 2 | no data | Oct 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.