Last Frost Day

Frost history / Stanton 2W, KY

Stanton 2W, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00157652, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 720 ft, 37.860, -83.897. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 22Oct 19
EarliestApr 3 (2019)Oct 9 (2022)
LatestMay 10 (2020)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend1.3 days later per decade2.4 days later per decade
Years with data1615

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.

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 15201020202008: May 12009: Apr 92010: Apr 282011: Apr 132012: Apr 242013: Apr 202014: Apr 172015: Apr 252016: Apr 132017: Apr 92019: Apr 32020: May 102021: Apr 242022: Apr 192023: Apr 252024: Apr 23

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202008: Oct 192009: Oct 182010: Oct 162011: Oct 222012: Oct 122013: Oct 252015: Oct 172016: Nov 102017: Oct 282018: Oct 212019: Nov 12020: Oct 172022: Oct 92023: Nov 12024: Oct 17

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
2024Apr 23Oct 17Mar 29Nov 30
2023Apr 25Nov 1Mar 30Nov 1
2022Apr 19Oct 9Apr 10Oct 20
2021Apr 24no dataApr 22no data
2020May 10Oct 17May 10Nov 2
2019Apr 3Nov 1Apr 2Nov 2
2018no dataOct 21no dataNov 10
2017Apr 9Oct 28Apr 8Oct 30
2016Apr 13Nov 10Apr 10Nov 13
2015Apr 25Oct 17Mar 30Oct 18
2014Apr 17no dataApr 17no data
2013Apr 20Oct 25Apr 4Oct 25
2012Apr 24Oct 12Apr 13Nov 3
2011Apr 13Oct 22Apr 13Oct 30
2010Apr 28Oct 16Mar 27Oct 22
2009Apr 9Oct 18Mar 23Oct 18
2008May 1Oct 19Apr 16Oct 30

"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.