Voorheesville, NY 12084 Frost Dates
12084, near Voorheesville, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Voorheesville 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
Voorheesville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Voorheesville's last frost
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.
Voorheesville against the rest of the dataset
Voorheesville's growing season runs about 169 days, ranking 29,447 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 806 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12084: local microclimates, on what one yard in Voorheesville can differ from the 12084 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Voorheesville's frost date answer different questions.