Schoharie, NY 12157 Frost Dates
12157, near Schoharie, NY: the frost window
Around 05/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 247 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
Schoharie 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
Schoharie'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
05/02 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 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Schoharie against the rest of the dataset
About 163 days separate Schoharie's last and first frost, putting it 31,469 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 979 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12157: the frost range, on how to read the range around Schoharie's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Schoharie can differ from the 12157 normal.