Last Frost Day

Frost history / Cressy, KY

Cressy, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00151895, 2007 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 720 ft, 37.830, -84.035. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 22Oct 19
EarliestApr 6 (2011)Oct 5 (2014)
LatestMay 10 (2020)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend2.6 days later per decadelittle change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data1819

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202008: May 12009: Apr 122010: Apr 292011: Apr 62012: Apr 252013: Apr 212014: Apr 182015: Apr 252016: Apr 142017: Apr 92018: Apr 292019: Apr 162020: May 102021: Apr 242022: Apr 192023: May 42024: Apr 232025: Apr 17

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202007: Oct 292008: Oct 192009: Oct 182010: Oct 222011: Oct 222012: Oct 112013: Oct 202014: Oct 52015: Oct 172016: Nov 102017: Oct 262018: Oct 192019: Oct 182020: Oct 172021: Nov 32022: Oct 82023: Oct 232024: Oct 162025: 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 17Oct 24Apr 10Nov 10
2024Apr 23Oct 16Mar 29Nov 30
2023May 4Oct 23Apr 25Nov 1
2022Apr 19Oct 8Apr 11Oct 20
2021Apr 24Nov 3Apr 23Nov 4
2020May 10Oct 17May 9Nov 2
2019Apr 16Oct 18Apr 2Nov 2
2018Apr 29Oct 19Apr 21Nov 11
2017Apr 9Oct 26Apr 8Nov 10
2016Apr 14Nov 10Apr 10Nov 10
2015Apr 25Oct 17Mar 30Oct 18
2014Apr 18Oct 5Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 21Oct 20Apr 4Oct 25
2012Apr 25Oct 11Apr 13Oct 11
2011Apr 6Oct 22Apr 2Oct 30
2010Apr 29Oct 22Mar 28Oct 30
2009Apr 12Oct 18Mar 23Oct 19
2008May 1Oct 19Apr 16Oct 30
2007no dataOct 29no dataOct 29

"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.