Round Lake, NY 12065 Frost Dates
Round Lake, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Round Lake sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 7 weeks until Round Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Round Lake against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Round Lake places 29,526 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 821 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12065's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Round Lake can differ from the 12065 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Round Lake's frost date answer different questions.