Goshen, NY 10959 Frost Dates
Goshen, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Goshen 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 8 weeks until Goshen's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/21 isn't a guarantee
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goshen against the rest of the dataset
Goshen's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,121 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 516 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10959's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Goshen's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Goshen's dates instead of trusting one.