Coxsackie, NY 12058 Frost Dates
12058, near Coxsackie, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Coxsackie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Coxsackie's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Coxsackie's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Coxsackie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Coxsackie places 29,454 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 810 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12058: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Coxsackie's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Coxsackie's dates instead of trusting one.