Stamford, NY 12076 Frost Dates
Stamford, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/18, roughly 263 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 137 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 Stamford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Stamford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Stamford's last frost
05/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stamford against the rest of the dataset
About 137 days separate Stamford's last and first frost, putting it 37,528 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,808 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12076's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Stamford's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Stamford can differ from the 12076 normal.