Stamford, NY 12167 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Stamford, NY, ZIP 12167
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/18, roughly 263 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/02, about 137 frost-free days later.
Stamford 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Stamford 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.
The actual range around Stamford's last frost
05/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Stamford compares
About 137 days separate Stamford's last and first frost, putting it 37,531 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,811 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Stamford's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Stamford's dates instead of trusting one.