Milford, NY 12155 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Milford, NY, ZIP 12155
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/17, roughly 262 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/03, about 141 frost-free days later.
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 Milford, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Milford has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Milford compares
At roughly 141 frost-free days, Milford places 36,976 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,784 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Milford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Milford can differ from the 12155 normal.