Richmondville, NY 12036 Frost Dates
Richmondville, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 263 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 137 days after the last spring frost.
Richmondville 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Richmondville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Richmondville's last frost
05/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Richmondville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 137 frost-free days, Richmondville places 37,537 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,814 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12036's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Richmondville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Richmondville's dates instead of trusting one.