Last Frost Day

Frost history / Warnock 2, KY

Warnock 2, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00158432, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 910 ft, 38.495, -83.018. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 24Oct 19
EarliestApr 3 (2019)Oct 8 (2022)
LatestMay 20 (2009)Nov 2 (2014)
Trend3.7 days earlier per decade0.7 days later per decade
Years with data2121

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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 30201020202005: May 52006: Apr 112007: Apr 182008: May 12009: May 202010: May 112011: May 62012: Apr 142013: Apr 222014: Apr 182015: Apr 252016: Apr 112017: May 92018: May 12019: Apr 32020: May 102021: Apr 242022: Apr 212023: Apr 262024: Apr 232025: Apr 18

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202005: Oct 262006: Oct 132007: Oct 132008: Oct 192009: Oct 182010: Oct 222011: Oct 222012: Oct 112013: Oct 222014: Nov 22015: Oct 182016: Oct 262017: Oct 262018: Oct 192019: Oct 132020: Oct 172021: Oct 282022: Oct 82023: Oct 242024: Oct 172025: Oct 24

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 18Oct 24Apr 10Nov 11
2024Apr 23Oct 17Mar 29Nov 30
2023Apr 26Oct 24Apr 26Nov 2
2022Apr 21Oct 8Apr 3Oct 20
2021Apr 24Oct 28Apr 24Nov 4
2020May 10Oct 17Apr 23Nov 2
2019Apr 3Oct 13Apr 2Nov 2
2018May 1Oct 19Apr 9Nov 11
2017May 9Oct 26Mar 24Nov 10
2016Apr 11Oct 26Apr 11Nov 13
2015Apr 25Oct 18Mar 30Oct 18
2014Apr 18Nov 2Apr 17Nov 2
2013Apr 22Oct 22Apr 4Oct 26
2012Apr 14Oct 11Apr 13Oct 12
2011May 6Oct 22Apr 6Oct 31
2010May 11Oct 22Apr 29Oct 23
2009May 20Oct 18Apr 14Oct 19
2008May 1Oct 19Apr 17Oct 20
2007Apr 18Oct 13Apr 11Oct 29
2006Apr 11Oct 13Apr 11Oct 15
2005May 5Oct 26May 5Oct 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.