Buchanan, NY 10596 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Buchanan, NY, ZIP 10596
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 172 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Buchanan, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Buchanan has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Buchanan's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Buchanan compares
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Buchanan places 28,338 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 717 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Buchanan's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Buchanan's dates instead of trusting one.