Madisonville, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00155067, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 425 ft, 37.347, -87.524. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 9	Oct 24
Earliest	Mar 7 (2010)	Oct 3 (1952)
Latest	May 4 (1976)	Nov 26 (2024)
Trend	1.0 days earlier per decade	2.1 days later per decade
Years with data	70	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 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.

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 10	Mar 21	Nov 10
2024	Mar 24	Nov 26	Mar 19	Nov 30
2022	Mar 27	no data	Mar 13	no data
2021	Apr 2	Nov 4	Apr 2	Nov 4
2020	Apr 15	Oct 5	Mar 7	Nov 2
2019	Apr 1	Nov 1	Apr 1	Nov 1
2018	Apr 17	Oct 21	Apr 7	Nov 10
2017	Mar 19	Nov 10	Mar 16	Nov 11
2016	Apr 10	Nov 10	Apr 10	Nov 13
2015	Mar 29	no data	Mar 29	no data
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Mar 26	Nov 2
2013	Apr 3	Oct 25	Mar 27	Oct 25
2011	Mar 27	Oct 29	Mar 1	Nov 11
2010	Mar 7	Oct 29	Mar 7	Nov 6
2009	Apr 8	no data	Apr 7	no data
2008	Apr 29	Oct 28	Apr 15	Oct 28
2007	Apr 20	Oct 29	Apr 13	Nov 2
2006	Mar 29	Oct 14	Mar 27	Nov 2
2005	Apr 24	Oct 26	Mar 20	Nov 17
2004	Apr 14	Oct 3	Apr 5	Nov 25
2003	Mar 31	Nov 8	Mar 31	Nov 14
2002	Apr 7	Nov 2	Mar 23	Nov 2
2001	Apr 18	Oct 17	Apr 18	Oct 28
2000	Apr 9	Oct 8	Apr 9	Oct 10
1999	Mar 27	Oct 24	Mar 27	Nov 30
1998	Apr 5	Nov 7	Mar 15	Nov 7
1997	Apr 18	Oct 22	Apr 9	Oct 28
1996	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 16	Nov 2
1995	Apr 5	Oct 25	Apr 1	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Oct 26	Apr 7	Oct 27
1993	Apr 22	Oct 22	Mar 18	Oct 28
1992	Apr 28	Nov 7	Apr 3	Nov 14
1991	Mar 31	Oct 7	Mar 31	Oct 16
1990	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 12	Nov 29
1989	Apr 12	Oct 20	Apr 11	Nov 3
1988	Apr 16	Oct 8	Mar 19	Nov 17
1987	Apr 4	Oct 4	Apr 4	Oct 8
1986	no data	Nov 12	no data	Nov 13
1985	Apr 10	Nov 6	Apr 9	Nov 21
1984	no data	Nov 6	no data	Nov 13
1983	Apr 25	Oct 26	Apr 20	Nov 5
1982	Apr 10	no data	Apr 10	no data
1981	Mar 25	Oct 24	Mar 24	Oct 24
1980	Apr 16	Oct 5	Mar 22	Oct 26
1979	Apr 6	Oct 14	Apr 6	Nov 11
1978	Apr 22	Oct 15	Mar 18	Nov 8
1977	Apr 5	Oct 13	Mar 23	Nov 12
1976	May 4	Oct 18	Mar 17	Oct 18
1975	Apr 13	Oct 3	Apr 4	Nov 14
1974	Apr 9	Oct 3	Mar 25	Oct 21
1973	Apr 14	Nov 6	Apr 11	Nov 6
1972	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 9	Oct 20
1971	no data	Nov 4	no data	Nov 4
1970	Apr 7	Oct 17	Mar 16	Nov 16
1969	Mar 31	Oct 18	Mar 31	Oct 28
1968	Mar 25	Oct 5	Mar 25	Oct 26
1967	Mar 22	Oct 11	Mar 19	Nov 4
1966	Apr 10	Oct 26	Apr 10	Nov 2
1965	Mar 27	Oct 25	Mar 21	Oct 25
1964	Apr 9	Oct 10	Mar 30	Nov 20
1963	May 2	Oct 30	Mar 22	Nov 3
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 26
1961	Apr 17	Oct 27	Apr 2	Oct 27
1960	Apr 19	Oct 21	Apr 10	Oct 21
1959	Mar 28	Oct 19	Mar 23	Nov 6
1958	Apr 8	Oct 20	Mar 22	Nov 7
1957	Apr 15	Oct 12	Apr 13	Oct 28
1956	Apr 19	Nov 9	Mar 31	Nov 9
1955	Apr 8	Oct 25	Mar 30	Nov 4
1954	Apr 2	Oct 21	Apr 2	Nov 1
1953	Apr 19	Oct 8	Mar 10	Nov 6
1952	Apr 6	Oct 3	Mar 28	Oct 7
1951	Apr 23	Oct 10	Apr 17	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.