Last Frost Day

Frost history / Taylorsville Lake, KY

Taylorsville Lake, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00157950, 2011 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 700 ft, 38.001, -85.309. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 24Oct 25
EarliestApr 4 (2019)Sep 23 (2012)
LatestMay 11 (2020)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend2.0 days earlier per decade11.9 days later per decade
Years with data1413

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 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 15May 3020202011: May 62012: Apr 242013: Apr 262014: Apr 172015: Apr 252016: Apr 102017: Apr 92018: May 12019: Apr 42020: May 112021: Apr 222022: Apr 202023: Apr 252024: Apr 23

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202011: Oct 22012: Sep 232013: Oct 252014: Oct 302015: Oct 182016: Nov 102017: Oct 302018: Oct 212019: Nov 12020: Oct 32021: Nov 32022: Oct 92023: Oct 31

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 23no dataMar 29no data
2023Apr 25Oct 31Mar 30Oct 31
2022Apr 20Oct 9Mar 29Oct 20
2021Apr 22Nov 3Apr 4Nov 3
2020May 11Oct 3May 10Oct 17
2019Apr 4Nov 1Apr 2Nov 1
2018May 1Oct 21Apr 18Nov 10
2017Apr 9Oct 30Apr 9Oct 30
2016Apr 10Nov 10Apr 9Nov 13
2015Apr 25Oct 18Mar 30Oct 18
2014Apr 17Oct 30Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 26Oct 25Apr 5Oct 25
2012Apr 24Sep 23Apr 13Oct 11
2011May 6Oct 2Apr 3Oct 23

"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.