Millerton, NY 01258 Frost Dates
Millerton, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Millerton sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Millerton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Millerton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Millerton places 32,438 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,131 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01258's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Millerton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Millerton's dates instead of trusting one.