Frost history / Stearns 2S, KY
Stearns 2S, KY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00157677, 1961 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,220 ft, 36.674, -84.479. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 28 | Oct 15 |
| Earliest | Mar 26 (1968) | Sep 22 (1983) |
| Latest | May 24 (1963) | Nov 2 (2002) |
| Trend | 3.0 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 31 | 35 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Oct 27.
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)
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 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 2012 | Apr 14 | no data | Apr 12 | no data |
| 2011 | May 5 | Oct 22 | Mar 4 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | May 10 | Oct 7 | Mar 28 | Oct 30 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | Apr 30 | Oct 19 | Apr 30 | Oct 20 |
| 2007 | May 20 | Oct 29 | Apr 18 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | Apr 11 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 2005 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | May 5 | Oct 17 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 |
| 2003 | Apr 24 | Oct 2 | Apr 1 | Nov 9 |
| 2002 | May 23 | Nov 2 | Apr 8 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 27 | Oct 7 | Apr 20 | Oct 17 |
| 2000 | Apr 28 | Oct 8 | Apr 10 | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | no data | Oct 21 | no data | Oct 24 |
| 1997 | May 19 | no data | May 5 | no data |
| 1993 | Apr 28 | Oct 2 | Mar 19 | Oct 23 |
| 1992 | May 5 | Oct 16 | Mar 29 | Oct 19 |
| 1991 | Apr 25 | Sep 28 | Apr 1 | Oct 6 |
| 1990 | Apr 20 | Oct 20 | Apr 19 | Oct 26 |
| 1989 | May 15 | Oct 5 | Apr 16 | Nov 4 |
| 1988 | May 4 | Oct 4 | Apr 30 | Oct 5 |
| 1987 | Apr 30 | Oct 4 | Apr 26 | Oct 4 |
| 1986 | May 4 | Oct 7 | May 4 | Nov 14 |
| 1985 | Apr 11 | Oct 6 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 |
| 1984 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 1983 | no data | Sep 22 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 1981 | Apr 8 | Oct 3 | Mar 25 | Oct 20 |
| 1980 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 1970 | Apr 5 | no data | Apr 4 | no data |
| 1969 | Apr 27 | Oct 18 | Apr 2 | Oct 24 |
| 1968 | Mar 26 | Oct 26 | Mar 25 | Oct 26 |
| 1967 | Apr 25 | Oct 20 | Mar 22 | Nov 5 |
| 1966 | May 11 | Oct 21 | May 10 | Nov 3 |
| 1965 | Apr 3 | Oct 6 | Mar 27 | Oct 25 |
| 1964 | Apr 11 | Oct 5 | Apr 2 | Oct 10 |
| 1963 | May 24 | Oct 30 | May 1 | Nov 2 |
| 1962 | Apr 18 | Oct 24 | Apr 16 | Oct 24 |
| 1961 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Oct 27 |
"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.