Hagaman, NY 12086 Frost Dates
12086, near Hagaman, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 153 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 Hagaman, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hagaman's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hagaman against the rest of the dataset
Hagaman's growing season runs about 153 days, ranking 34,566 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,449 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12086: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Hagaman's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hagaman's dates instead of trusting one.