Last Frost Day

Frost history / Bedford 5 Wnw, IN

Bedford 5 Wnw, IN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00063898, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 760 ft, 38.888, -86.571. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 28
EarliestMar 23 (2017)Oct 8 (2012)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 21 (2024)
Trend7.9 days later per decade5.3 days later per decade
Years with data1717

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202008: Apr 52009: Mar 302010: Mar 272011: Mar 312012: Apr 122013: Apr 202014: Apr 162015: Apr 242016: Apr 102017: Mar 232018: Apr 172019: Apr 22020: May 92021: Apr 212022: Apr 102023: Apr 242024: Mar 28

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202008: Oct 282009: Nov 12010: Oct 292011: Oct 222012: Oct 82013: Oct 222014: Nov 12015: Oct 182016: Nov 132017: Oct 262018: Oct 212019: Oct 312020: Oct 162021: Nov 22022: Oct 192023: Oct 302024: Nov 21

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
2024Mar 28Nov 21Mar 21Nov 29
2023Apr 24Oct 30Mar 20Oct 31
2022Apr 10Oct 19Apr 2Nov 12
2021Apr 21Nov 2Apr 2Nov 3
2020May 9Oct 16Apr 16Nov 2
2019Apr 2Oct 31Apr 1Nov 1
2018Apr 17Oct 21Apr 8Oct 21
2017Mar 23Oct 26Mar 16Nov 10
2016Apr 10Nov 13Apr 5Nov 13
2015Apr 24Oct 18Mar 29Nov 22
2014Apr 16Nov 1Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 20Oct 22Apr 2Oct 25
2012Apr 12Oct 8Mar 10Nov 5
2011Mar 31Oct 22Mar 31Nov 18
2010Mar 27Oct 29Mar 6Nov 6
2009Mar 30Nov 1Mar 13Dec 3
2008Apr 5Oct 28Mar 24Nov 18

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.