Last Frost Day

Frost history / Knob Lick 4S, KY

Knob Lick 4S, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00154449, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,020 ft, 37.024, -85.699. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Nov 1
EarliestMar 19 (2023)Oct 16 (2024)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 21 (2015)
Trend2.3 days later per decade4.8 days earlier per decade
Years with data1416

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202011: Mar 272012: Apr 122013: Apr 32014: Apr 162015: Mar 312016: Apr 102017: Mar 242018: Apr 182020: May 92021: Apr 222022: Apr 202023: Mar 192024: Mar 252025: Apr 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202010: Nov 62011: Oct 292012: Nov 12013: Oct 252014: Nov 22015: Nov 212016: Nov 202017: Oct 302018: Oct 212019: Nov 12020: Nov 22021: Nov 32022: Oct 192023: Oct 312024: Oct 162025: Nov 10

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 9Nov 10Mar 21Nov 10
2024Mar 25Oct 16Mar 20Nov 29
2023Mar 19Oct 31Mar 19Nov 1
2022Apr 20Oct 19Mar 28Nov 14
2021Apr 22Nov 3Apr 2Nov 13
2020May 9Nov 2Mar 7Nov 2
2019no dataNov 1no dataNov 1
2018Apr 18Oct 21Apr 8Nov 10
2017Mar 24Oct 30Mar 17Nov 11
2016Apr 10Nov 20Mar 3Nov 20
2015Mar 31Nov 21Mar 31Nov 22
2014Apr 16Nov 2Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 3Oct 25Mar 28Oct 25
2012Apr 12Nov 1Mar 10Nov 13
2011Mar 27Oct 29Feb 24Nov 11
2010no dataNov 6no dataNov 6

"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.