Last Frost Day

Frost history / Mcdaniels, KY

Mcdaniels, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00155280, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 425 ft, 37.650, -86.431. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 31
EarliestMar 23 (2017)Oct 18 (2009)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 24 (2024)
Trend5.9 days later per decade10.0 days later per decade
Years with data1515

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 29 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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202009: Apr 92010: Mar 282011: Apr 12013: Apr 252015: Apr 242016: Apr 102017: Mar 232018: Apr 202019: Apr 22020: May 92021: Apr 212022: Apr 102023: Apr 242024: Apr 62025: Apr 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202008: Oct 282009: Oct 182010: Oct 222014: Nov 22015: Oct 182016: Nov 102017: Oct 302018: Oct 212019: Nov 12020: Nov 22021: Nov 32022: Oct 202023: Oct 312024: Nov 242025: 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
2024Apr 6Nov 24Mar 28Nov 30
2023Apr 24Oct 31Mar 29Oct 31
2022Apr 10Oct 20Mar 28Oct 20
2021Apr 21Nov 3Apr 3Nov 4
2020May 9Nov 2Apr 16Nov 2
2019Apr 2Nov 1Apr 1Nov 1
2018Apr 20Oct 21Apr 8Nov 10
2017Mar 23Oct 30Mar 19Nov 11
2016Apr 10Nov 10Mar 7Nov 13
2015Apr 24Oct 18Mar 30Nov 14
2014no dataNov 2no dataNov 2
2013Apr 25no dataApr 4no data
2011Apr 1no dataMar 2no data
2010Mar 28Oct 22Mar 8Oct 29
2009Apr 9Oct 18Mar 30Nov 28
2008no dataOct 28no dataNov 10

"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.