Hoosick Falls, NY 12057 Frost Dates
12057, near Hoosick Falls, NY: the frost window
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hoosick Falls 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
Hoosick Falls's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Hoosick Falls's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hoosick Falls against the rest of the dataset
Hoosick Falls's growing season runs about 154 days, ranking 34,295 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,407 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12057: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hoosick Falls can differ from the 12057 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Hoosick Falls's frost date answer different questions.