Troy, NY 12140 Frost Dates
Troy, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Troy 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Troy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Troy's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Troy against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Troy's last and first frost, putting it 21,014 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 362 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12140's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Troy's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Troy's dates instead of trusting one.