Last Frost Day

Frost history / Brandenburg, KY

Brandenburg, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00150955, 2000 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 615 ft, 37.956, -86.116. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 14Oct 23
EarliestApr 2 (2011)Sep 20 (2003)
LatestMay 4 (2005)Nov 10 (2016)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)4.2 days later per decade
Years with data2020

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 152000201020202000: Apr 102001: Apr 202002: Apr 82003: Apr 62004: Apr 262005: May 42006: Apr 112007: Apr 112009: Apr 132010: Apr 202011: Apr 22012: Apr 142013: Apr 272014: Apr 172015: Apr 252016: Apr 132017: Apr 92018: May 12019: Apr 32025: Apr 14

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020202000: Oct 82001: Oct 82002: Nov 22003: Sep 202004: Nov 92005: Oct 282007: Oct 292009: Oct 182010: Oct 232011: Oct 222012: Oct 112013: Oct 252014: Oct 312015: Oct 182016: Nov 102017: Oct 302018: Oct 192019: Nov 12024: Oct 172025: Oct 24

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 14Oct 24Apr 10Nov 10
2024no dataOct 17no dataNov 30
2019Apr 3Nov 1Apr 2Nov 1
2018May 1Oct 19Apr 18Nov 10
2017Apr 9Oct 30Mar 20Oct 30
2016Apr 13Nov 10Apr 3Nov 13
2015Apr 25Oct 18Mar 30Nov 14
2014Apr 17Oct 31Apr 17Nov 2
2013Apr 27Oct 25Apr 4Oct 25
2012Apr 14Oct 11Mar 10Nov 5
2011Apr 2Oct 22Apr 1Oct 31
2010Apr 20Oct 23Mar 28Oct 31
2009Apr 13Oct 18Apr 13Nov 28
2007Apr 11Oct 29Apr 11Nov 7
2006Apr 11no dataMar 28no data
2005May 4Oct 28Mar 21Oct 28
2004Apr 26Nov 9Apr 26Nov 10
2003Apr 6Sep 20Apr 1Nov 7
2002Apr 8Nov 2Apr 8Nov 2
2001Apr 20Oct 8Apr 19Oct 28
2000Apr 10Oct 8Apr 10Oct 8

"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.