Paducah, KY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003816, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 392 ft, 37.068, -88.772. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 6	Oct 27
Earliest	Mar 7 (1977)	Oct 3 (1974)
Latest	Apr 28 (1992)	Nov 26 (2024)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	74	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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.

Chart

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
2024	Mar 28	Nov 26	Mar 19	Nov 29
2023	Mar 29	Oct 30	Mar 19	Oct 31
2022	Mar 20	Oct 18	Mar 13	Oct 19
2021	Apr 2	Nov 3	Apr 2	Nov 5
2020	Apr 15	Nov 2	Mar 7	Nov 2
2019	Apr 15	Oct 31	Mar 7	Oct 31
2018	Apr 17	Oct 21	Mar 14	Nov 10
2017	Mar 19	Oct 28	Mar 16	Nov 19
2016	Apr 3	Nov 10	Mar 6	Nov 13
2015	Mar 29	Oct 18	Mar 28	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Mar 26	Nov 2
2013	Apr 25	Oct 24	Mar 27	Nov 12
2012	Apr 12	Oct 31	Mar 4	Nov 13
2011	Mar 31	Oct 29	Mar 11	Nov 11
2010	Mar 7	Oct 29	Mar 6	Nov 5
2009	Mar 30	Oct 18	Mar 4	Nov 26
2008	Apr 15	Oct 28	Mar 24	Nov 9
2007	Apr 9	Oct 29	Apr 9	Nov 6
2006	Apr 9	Oct 13	Mar 26	Oct 24
2005	Mar 20	Oct 26	Mar 20	Nov 17
2004	Apr 5	Nov 5	Mar 13	Nov 25
2003	Mar 31	Nov 8	Mar 31	Nov 14
2002	Apr 6	Nov 1	Mar 27	Nov 2
2001	Apr 18	Oct 27	Mar 28	Oct 28
2000	Apr 9	Oct 9	Apr 9	Nov 14
1999	Mar 28	Oct 23	Mar 27	Oct 25
1998	Apr 5	Oct 24	Mar 22	Nov 7
1997	Apr 18	Oct 22	Apr 9	Oct 22
1996	Apr 10	Nov 1	Apr 10	Nov 2
1995	Apr 2	Oct 25	Apr 1	Nov 3
1994	Apr 7	Oct 26	Apr 7	Nov 23
1993	Apr 22	Oct 22	Mar 15	Oct 31
1992	Apr 28	Oct 19	Apr 3	Nov 14
1991	Mar 31	Oct 7	Mar 31	Nov 3
1990	Apr 12	Oct 19	Apr 12	Oct 29
1989	Apr 12	Nov 1	Apr 11	Nov 3
1988	Apr 16	Oct 12	Mar 17	Oct 13
1987	Apr 6	Oct 4	Apr 3	Oct 8
1986	Apr 23	Nov 12	Mar 22	Nov 12
1985	Apr 9	Nov 6	Apr 9	Nov 21
1984	Apr 1	Nov 12	Mar 9	Nov 12
1983	Apr 21	Nov 5	Apr 20	Nov 17
1982	Apr 10	Oct 21	Apr 10	Oct 26
1981	Mar 24	Oct 23	Mar 12	Oct 23
1980	Mar 22	Oct 5	Mar 11	Oct 30
1979	Apr 6	Oct 14	Mar 26	Nov 11
1978	Mar 18	Nov 8	Mar 18	Dec 4
1977	Mar 7	Nov 12	Feb 28	Nov 13
1976	Apr 10	Oct 18	Mar 17	Oct 18
1975	Apr 4	Nov 13	Mar 26	Nov 14
1974	Apr 9	Oct 3	Mar 25	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 5	Apr 11	Nov 6
1972	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 8	Nov 23
1971	Apr 7	Nov 4	Mar 27	Nov 7
1970	Mar 30	Nov 4	Mar 16	Nov 15
1969	Mar 31	Oct 23	Mar 31	Oct 23
1968	Mar 24	Oct 25	Mar 24	Oct 26
1967	Mar 22	Oct 11	Mar 19	Nov 4
1966	Apr 10	Oct 27	Mar 29	Nov 3
1965	Mar 27	Oct 29	Mar 27	Nov 29
1964	Apr 9	Oct 10	Mar 30	Nov 20
1963	Mar 22	Oct 30	Mar 22	Nov 2
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 16	Nov 6
1961	Apr 18	Oct 26	Apr 2	Nov 4
1960	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 10	Nov 7
1959	Mar 28	Oct 28	Mar 23	Nov 6
1958	Apr 8	Nov 7	Mar 22	Nov 7
1957	Apr 15	Oct 26	Mar 10	Oct 27
1956	Mar 30	Nov 9	Mar 25	Nov 9
1955	Mar 30	Nov 3	Mar 29	Nov 3
1954	Apr 1	Oct 30	Apr 1	Nov 2
1953	Apr 20	Oct 30	Mar 9	Nov 6
1952	Apr 6	Oct 7	Mar 26	Oct 21
1951	Apr 17	Nov 2	Mar 26	Nov 2

"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.