Middleburgh, NY 12147 Frost Dates
12147, near Middleburgh, NY: the frost window
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Middleburgh sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Middleburgh'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
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Middleburgh against the rest of the dataset
About 160 days separate Middleburgh's last and first frost, putting it 32,425 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,128 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12147: the frost range, on how to read the range around Middleburgh's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Middleburgh can differ from the 12147 normal.