Ravena, NY 12161 Frost Dates
Ravena, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/03, roughly 248 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 160 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Ravena's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Ravena against the rest of the dataset
Ravena's growing season runs about 160 days, ranking 32,324 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,068 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12161's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Ravena's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Ravena's dates instead of trusting one.