Last Frost Day

Frost history / Quicksand, KY

Quicksand, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00156624, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 745 ft, 37.534, -83.349. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 20Oct 23
EarliestApr 7 (2011)Oct 1 (2011)
LatestMay 10 (2020)Nov 11 (2016)
Trend3.9 days later per decade4.9 days later per decade
Years with data1312

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1520202011: Apr 72012: Apr 252013: Apr 212014: Apr 182015: Apr 252016: Apr 142017: Apr 102018: Apr 302019: Apr 172020: May 102021: Apr 242022: Apr 202025: Apr 14

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202011: Oct 12012: Oct 232013: Oct 212014: Nov 12015: Oct 182016: Nov 112017: Oct 262019: Nov 22020: Oct 182021: Nov 32024: Oct 182025: Oct 23

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 14Oct 23Apr 10Nov 11
2024no dataOct 18no dataNov 29
2022Apr 20no dataApr 11no data
2021Apr 24Nov 3Apr 23Nov 4
2020May 10Oct 18Mar 9Nov 2
2019Apr 17Nov 2Apr 1Nov 2
2018Apr 30no dataApr 21no data
2017Apr 10Oct 26Mar 24Oct 27
2016Apr 14Nov 11Apr 11Nov 13
2015Apr 25Oct 18Mar 30Nov 14
2014Apr 18Nov 1Apr 17Nov 2
2013Apr 21Oct 21Apr 4Oct 26
2012Apr 25Oct 23Apr 25Nov 3
2011Apr 7Oct 1Mar 29Oct 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.