Valley Falls, NY 12185 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Valley Falls, NY, ZIP 12185
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/06, about 154 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Valley Falls in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Valley Falls has about 6 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.
Why 05/06 isn't a guarantee
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Valley Falls compares
About 154 days separate Valley Falls's last and first frost, putting it 34,420 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,430 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Valley Falls's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Valley Falls's dates instead of trusting one.