Highland Falls, NY 10524 Frost Dates
Highland Falls, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Highland Falls sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 9 weeks until Highland Falls'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
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Highland Falls against the rest of the dataset
Highland Falls's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,596 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 300 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10524's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Highland Falls's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Highland Falls's dates instead of trusting one.