Kinderhook, NY 12106 Frost Dates
12106, near Kinderhook, NY: the frost window
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kinderhook in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kinderhook'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 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.
Kinderhook against the rest of the dataset
Kinderhook's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,720 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 739 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12106: local microclimates, on what one yard in Kinderhook can differ from the 12106 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Kinderhook's frost date answer different questions.