Frost history / Cincinnati-Fernbank, OH
Cincinnati-Fernbank, OH: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00331550, 1974 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 500 ft, 39.117, -84.696. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 16 | Oct 25 |
| Earliest | Mar 28 (1999) | Oct 2 (1974) |
| Latest | May 10 (1976) | Nov 29 (1978) |
| Trend | 5.6 days earlier per decade | 3.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 32 | 34 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Apr 12 | Oct 18 | Mar 21 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 | Mar 25 | Oct 30 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 | Apr 10 | Nov 16 |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | Oct 15 | Mar 28 | Nov 2 |
| 2005 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | Nov 9 | Apr 5 | Nov 14 |
| 2002 | Apr 7 | Nov 2 | Apr 6 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 28 | Mar 29 | Dec 10 |
| 2000 | Apr 10 | Nov 14 | Apr 9 | Nov 19 |
| 1999 | Mar 28 | Oct 25 | Mar 27 | Nov 17 |
| 1998 | Apr 6 | Nov 4 | Mar 23 | Nov 4 |
| 1997 | Apr 18 | Oct 21 | Apr 14 | Oct 27 |
| 1996 | Apr 18 | Nov 1 | Apr 11 | Nov 2 |
| 1995 | Apr 6 | Nov 4 | Apr 6 | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | Apr 29 | Oct 28 | Apr 3 | Nov 23 |
| 1993 | Apr 23 | Oct 29 | Mar 20 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Apr 7 | Oct 19 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 |
| 1991 | Apr 12 | Oct 16 | Apr 3 | Nov 3 |
| 1990 | Apr 19 | Oct 29 | Apr 19 | Nov 8 |
| 1989 | Apr 15 | Oct 19 | Apr 13 | Nov 4 |
| 1988 | Apr 21 | Oct 12 | Apr 21 | Oct 13 |
| 1987 | Apr 10 | Oct 4 | Apr 5 | Oct 22 |
| 1986 | May 4 | Nov 10 | Apr 24 | Nov 10 |
| 1985 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Nov 21 |
| 1984 | Apr 12 | Nov 3 | Apr 1 | Nov 13 |
| 1983 | Apr 26 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 1982 | Apr 29 | Oct 17 | Apr 8 | Nov 5 |
| 1981 | Apr 22 | Oct 24 | Mar 25 | Oct 24 |
| 1980 | Apr 18 | Oct 7 | Mar 28 | Oct 27 |
| 1979 | Apr 11 | Oct 25 | Apr 8 | Oct 29 |
| 1978 | May 4 | Nov 29 | Mar 19 | Nov 29 |
| 1977 | Apr 30 | Oct 17 | Apr 10 | Oct 17 |
| 1976 | May 10 | Oct 18 | Apr 13 | Oct 18 |
| 1975 | Apr 22 | Oct 3 | Apr 13 | Nov 15 |
| 1974 | no data | Oct 2 | no data | Oct 21 |
"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.