Hudson, NY 12172 Frost Dates
12172, near Hudson, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Hudson 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
Hudson'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.
The actual range around Hudson's last frost
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.
Hudson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Hudson places 28,633 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 723 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12172: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Hudson's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hudson's dates instead of trusting one.