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Hoosick Falls, NY 12082 Frost Dates

Hoosick Falls, NY: when does the frost end?

Zone 5b

Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.

Hoosick Falls sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 6 weeks until Hoosick Falls's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 05/01 isn't a guarantee

05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Hoosick Falls against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 162 frost-free days, Hoosick Falls places 31,732 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,014 of 1,951.

Learn more

Before leaning on 12082's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hoosick Falls's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hoosick Falls can differ from the 12082 normal.