Schaghticoke, NY 12154 Frost Dates
12154, near Schaghticoke, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Schaghticoke 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
Schaghticoke'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
05/06 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.
Schaghticoke against the rest of the dataset
About 154 days separate Schaghticoke's last and first frost, putting it 34,405 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,425 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12154: the frost range, on how to read the range around Schaghticoke's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Schaghticoke can differ from the 12154 normal.