Last Frost Day

Frost history / Kenlake Resort, KY

Kenlake Resort, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00154375, 2005 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 484 ft, 36.760, -88.139. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 27Nov 6
EarliestMar 5 (2012)Oct 20 (2008)
LatestApr 18 (2018)Nov 27 (2009)
Trend7.8 days later per decade1.4 days later per decade
Years with data1516

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202006: Mar 272007: Apr 102008: Apr 162009: Mar 132010: Mar 72011: Mar 122012: Mar 52013: Mar 282014: Mar 272015: Mar 292016: Mar 222017: Mar 172018: Apr 182019: Apr 22020: Apr 16

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202005: Nov 172006: Oct 252007: Nov 72008: Oct 202009: Nov 272010: Nov 62011: Nov 112012: Nov 12013: Oct 252014: Nov 22015: Nov 222016: Nov 202017: Nov 112018: Nov 102019: Nov 12020: Nov 2

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
2020Apr 16Nov 2Mar 8Dec 1
2019Apr 2Nov 1Mar 8Nov 1
2018Apr 18Nov 10Apr 8Nov 11
2017Mar 17Nov 11Mar 17Nov 23
2016Mar 22Nov 20Mar 3Nov 21
2015Mar 29Nov 22Mar 8Nov 22
2014Mar 27Nov 2Mar 27Nov 13
2013Mar 28Oct 25Mar 28Nov 14
2012Mar 5Nov 1Feb 21Nov 13
2011Mar 12Nov 11Feb 13Nov 11
2010Mar 7Nov 6Mar 7Nov 6
2009Mar 13Nov 27Mar 4Dec 4
2008Apr 16Oct 20Mar 10Oct 27
2007Apr 10Nov 7Apr 9Nov 30
2006Mar 27Oct 25Mar 25Nov 3
2005no dataNov 17no dataNov 17

"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.