Hoosick Falls, NY 12138 Frost Dates
12138, near Hoosick Falls, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 162 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 Hoosick Falls, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hoosick Falls'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.
The actual range around Hoosick Falls's last frost
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 31,733 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,015 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12138: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hoosick Falls can differ from the 12138 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Hoosick Falls's frost date answer different questions.