Hopkinsville, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00153994, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 520 ft, 36.849, -87.521. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 10	Oct 26
Earliest	Mar 19 (2017)	Sep 22 (1983)
Latest	May 4 (1976)	Nov 26 (2024)
Trend	0.8 days earlier per decade	1.8 days later per decade
Years with data	57	61

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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
2025	Apr 8	Nov 9	Mar 21	Nov 10
2024	Apr 6	Nov 26	Mar 19	Nov 29
2023	Apr 24	Oct 31	Mar 20	Oct 31
2022	Apr 1	Oct 18	Mar 13	Oct 18
2021	Apr 21	Nov 3	Apr 2	Nov 4
2020	Apr 15	Nov 2	Mar 7	Nov 2
2019	Apr 1	Oct 31	Apr 1	Nov 1
2018	Apr 17	Oct 21	Mar 14	Nov 10
2017	Mar 19	Nov 10	Mar 16	Nov 11
2016	no data	Nov 10	no data	Nov 13
2015	Apr 4	Nov 14	Mar 28	Nov 22
2011	no data	Oct 29	no data	Nov 11
2009	Apr 9	no data	Mar 5	no data
2008	Apr 16	Oct 28	Mar 25	Oct 29
2007	Apr 11	Nov 7	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Mar 27	Oct 13	Mar 27	Oct 24
2005	Mar 20	Oct 26	Mar 15	Nov 17
2004	Apr 15	Nov 25	Mar 22	Dec 2
2003	no data	Nov 14	no data	Nov 14
2002	Apr 6	Nov 2	Mar 24	Nov 2
2000	Apr 10	Oct 8	Apr 10	Nov 14
1994	Apr 8	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 23
1993	Apr 23	Oct 28	Mar 19	Oct 28
1992	no data	Oct 19	no data	Nov 14
1991	Apr 1	Oct 7	Apr 1	Nov 3
1990	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 12	Nov 29
1989	Apr 13	Oct 19	Apr 12	Nov 3
1988	no data	Oct 13	no data	Nov 29
1984	Apr 2	Oct 2	Mar 12	Nov 7
1983	Apr 26	Sep 22	Apr 21	Nov 5
1982	Apr 11	Oct 17	Apr 11	Oct 22
1981	Mar 23	Oct 3	Mar 20	Oct 24
1980	Apr 5	Oct 5	Mar 22	Oct 13
1979	Apr 7	Oct 14	Mar 27	Nov 11
1978	Mar 29	Oct 15	Mar 19	Nov 29
1977	Mar 24	Oct 13	Mar 23	Nov 12
1976	May 4	Oct 17	Mar 18	Oct 28
1975	Apr 13	Nov 13	Apr 12	Nov 14
1974	Apr 10	Oct 21	Mar 26	Nov 15
1973	Apr 13	Nov 6	Apr 12	Nov 6
1972	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 9	Nov 23
1971	Apr 8	Nov 4	Mar 27	Nov 7
1970	Apr 3	Nov 6	Mar 17	Nov 16
1969	Apr 1	Oct 24	Apr 1	Nov 14
1968	Mar 26	Oct 25	Mar 25	Oct 26
1967	Mar 22	Oct 11	Mar 20	Nov 4
1966	Apr 11	Oct 28	Apr 10	Nov 3
1965	Mar 28	Oct 25	Mar 27	Oct 25
1964	Apr 10	Oct 10	Mar 31	Oct 20
1963	May 1	Oct 30	Mar 22	Nov 2
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 24
1961	Apr 16	Oct 15	Apr 2	Oct 27
1960	Apr 10	Oct 21	Apr 10	Nov 6
1959	Apr 14	Nov 6	Mar 23	Nov 7
1958	Apr 8	Nov 3	Apr 8	Nov 7
1957	Apr 14	Oct 27	Mar 11	Oct 27
1956	Apr 19	Nov 9	Mar 25	Nov 9
1955	Apr 8	Oct 25	Mar 30	Nov 4
1954	May 4	Oct 30	Apr 1	Oct 30
1953	Apr 21	Oct 30	Mar 7	Nov 6
1952	Apr 7	Oct 7	Apr 7	Oct 21
1951	Apr 23	Oct 9	Apr 17	Nov 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.