Valley Falls, NY 12094 Frost Dates
Valley Falls, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 154 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 Valley Falls, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Valley Falls's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/06 isn't a guarantee
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Valley Falls against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Valley Falls places 34,419 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,429 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12094's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Valley Falls's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Valley Falls can differ from the 12094 normal.