Frost history / Crestwood 4NE, KY
Crestwood 4NE, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00151900, 1996 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 780 ft, 38.364, -85.419. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 12 | Oct 20 |
| Earliest | Mar 22 (2005) | Oct 3 (2003) |
| Latest | May 16 (1997) | Nov 1 (2002) |
| Trend | 15.0 days earlier per decade | 5.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Mar 31 | Oct 28 | Mar 27 | Nov 10 |
| 2010 | Mar 30 | Oct 29 | Mar 7 | Nov 5 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 17 | Mar 30 | Oct 17 |
| 2008 | Apr 15 | no data | Mar 25 | no data |
| 2007 | Apr 17 | Oct 28 | Apr 12 | Nov 6 |
| 2006 | Apr 9 | Oct 13 | Mar 27 | Oct 24 |
| 2005 | Mar 22 | Oct 26 | Mar 15 | Nov 10 |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | Oct 17 | Apr 5 | Nov 13 |
| 2003 | Apr 23 | Oct 3 | Mar 31 | Nov 7 |
| 2002 | Apr 7 | Nov 1 | Apr 5 | Nov 1 |
| 2001 | Apr 18 | Oct 7 | Apr 18 | Oct 27 |
| 2000 | Apr 21 | Oct 7 | Apr 9 | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | Mar 28 | Oct 20 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Apr 11 | Oct 22 | Mar 23 | Nov 4 |
| 1997 | May 16 | Oct 21 | Apr 18 | Oct 21 |
| 1996 | Apr 27 | Oct 18 | Apr 18 | 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.