Fultonville, NY 12016 Frost Dates
12016, near Fultonville, NY: the frost window
Around 05/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 256 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fultonville in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fultonville's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fultonville against the rest of the dataset
About 143 days separate Fultonville's last and first frost, putting it 36,571 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,744 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12016: the frost range, on how to read the range around Fultonville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Fultonville can differ from the 12016 normal.