Middleburgh, NY 12071 Frost Dates
Middleburgh, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 254 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 148 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Middleburgh, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Middleburgh'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
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Middleburgh against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 148 frost-free days, Middleburgh places 35,747 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,601 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12071's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Middleburgh's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Middleburgh can differ from the 12071 normal.