Coxsackie, NY 12173 Frost Dates
12173, near Coxsackie, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Coxsackie in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Coxsackie'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 Coxsackie'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.
Coxsackie against the rest of the dataset
Coxsackie's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,672 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 730 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12173: the frost range, on how to read the range around Coxsackie's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Coxsackie can differ from the 12173 normal.