Philmont, NY 12075 Frost Dates
Philmont, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Philmont 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 Philmont's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Philmont's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 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.
Philmont against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate Philmont's last and first frost, putting it 28,709 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 737 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12075's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Philmont can differ from the 12075 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Philmont's frost date answer different questions.