Last Frost Day

Frost history / Shelbyville Muni Ap, IN

Shelbyville Muni Ap, IN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053866, 1999 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 804 ft, 39.578, -85.803. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 14Oct 18
EarliestMar 30 (1999)Oct 2 (2003)
LatestMay 19 (2002)Nov 12 (2016)
Trend1.1 days earlier per decade5.5 days later per decade
Years with data2626

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 29 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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 302000201020201999: Mar 302000: Apr 122001: Apr 252002: May 192003: Apr 232004: Apr 142005: May 32006: Apr 92007: Apr 102008: Apr 302009: Apr 122010: Mar 302011: Apr 12012: Apr 132013: Apr 212014: Apr 162015: Apr 242016: Apr 102017: Apr 82018: Apr 292019: Apr 22020: May 92021: Apr 212022: Apr 102023: Apr 242024: Apr 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201999: Oct 182000: Oct 72001: Oct 72002: Oct 142003: Oct 22004: Oct 32005: Oct 282006: Oct 122007: Oct 282008: Oct 222009: Oct 172010: Oct 162011: Oct 222012: Oct 82013: Oct 222014: Oct 232015: Oct 172016: Nov 122017: Oct 262018: Oct 182019: Oct 182020: Oct 52021: Nov 22022: Oct 202023: Oct 312024: Oct 17

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 6Oct 17Mar 21Nov 29
2023Apr 24Oct 31Mar 21Oct 31
2022Apr 10Oct 20Mar 28Nov 14
2021Apr 21Nov 2Apr 2Nov 3
2020May 9Oct 5Apr 16Nov 2
2019Apr 2Oct 18Apr 1Nov 1
2018Apr 29Oct 18Apr 8Nov 10
2017Apr 8Oct 26Mar 16Nov 10
2016Apr 10Nov 12Apr 3Nov 12
2015Apr 24Oct 17Mar 29Oct 18
2014Apr 16Oct 23Mar 26Nov 2
2013Apr 21Oct 22Apr 3Nov 12
2012Apr 13Oct 8Mar 10Nov 5
2011Apr 1Oct 22Mar 31Nov 11
2010Mar 30Oct 16Mar 7Oct 22
2009Apr 12Oct 17Mar 20Oct 18
2008Apr 30Oct 22Mar 24Oct 30
2007Apr 10Oct 28Apr 10Nov 2
2006Apr 9Oct 12Mar 27Oct 25
2005May 3Oct 28Mar 24Oct 29
2004Apr 14Oct 3Apr 5Nov 9
2003Apr 23Oct 2Mar 14Nov 7
2002May 19Oct 14Apr 6Nov 2
2001Apr 25Oct 7Apr 18Oct 27
2000Apr 12Oct 7Apr 9Nov 15
1999Mar 30Oct 18Mar 28Oct 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.