Frost history / Jamestown Wwtp, KY
Jamestown Wwtp, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00154208, 1972 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 890 ft, 37.006, -85.062. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 15 | Oct 22 |
| Earliest | Mar 25 (1981) | Oct 3 (1974) |
| Latest | May 14 (2013) | Nov 14 (1975) |
| Trend | 2.8 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 32 | 31 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 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)
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 13 | Oct 24 | Apr 9 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | May 11 | Oct 16 | Mar 24 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Apr 25 | Oct 31 | Mar 30 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | May 9 | Oct 9 | Apr 27 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 3 | Apr 22 | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | May 9 | Oct 31 | May 9 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 | Apr 1 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | May 1 | Oct 21 | Apr 20 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Apr 8 | Oct 30 | Mar 23 | Oct 30 |
| 2016 | Apr 13 | Nov 10 | Apr 9 | Nov 10 |
| 2015 | Apr 24 | Oct 16 | Apr 5 | Nov 13 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | no data | Apr 16 | no data |
| 2013 | May 14 | Oct 20 | Apr 4 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 14 | Oct 11 | Apr 13 | Nov 1 |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 21 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | Nov 3 | Apr 12 | Nov 4 |
| 1988 | Apr 20 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 1987 | Apr 5 | Oct 13 | Apr 4 | Oct 22 |
| 1986 | Apr 23 | Nov 13 | Apr 23 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 | Apr 10 | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Apr 2 | Nov 7 | Mar 12 | Nov 13 |
| 1983 | Apr 21 | Nov 5 | Apr 20 | Nov 5 |
| 1982 | Apr 10 | Oct 22 | Apr 8 | Nov 5 |
| 1981 | Mar 25 | Oct 24 | Mar 22 | Oct 24 |
| 1980 | Apr 16 | Oct 6 | Mar 22 | Oct 26 |
| 1979 | Apr 7 | Oct 14 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 |
| 1978 | Apr 22 | Oct 15 | Mar 19 | Nov 25 |
| 1977 | Apr 7 | Oct 12 | Mar 23 | Nov 12 |
| 1976 | May 4 | Oct 18 | Mar 18 | Oct 28 |
| 1975 | Apr 16 | Nov 14 | Apr 5 | Nov 14 |
| 1974 | Apr 10 | Oct 3 | Mar 25 | Oct 3 |
| 1973 | Apr 14 | Nov 6 | Apr 11 | Nov 6 |
| 1972 | Apr 10 | Oct 20 | Apr 9 | Oct 20 |
"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.