Ravena, NY 12156 Frost Dates
12156, near Ravena, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Ravena 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
Ravena's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ravena against the rest of the dataset
Ravena's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,648 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 727 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12156: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ravena can differ from the 12156 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Ravena's frost date answer different questions.