Waterford, NY 12182 Frost Dates
12182, near Waterford, NY: the frost window
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Waterford 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
Waterford's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Waterford's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waterford against the rest of the dataset
Waterford's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,193 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 373 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12182: the frost range, on how to read the range around Waterford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Waterford can differ from the 12182 normal.