Middleburgh, NY 12023 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Middleburgh, NY, ZIP 12023
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/13, about 163 frost-free days later.
Middleburgh sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Middleburgh 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Middleburgh compares
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Middleburgh places 31,447 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 969 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Middleburgh's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Middleburgh's dates instead of trusting one.