Troy, NY 12198 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Troy, NY, ZIP 12198
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 190 frost-free days later.
Troy 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Troy has about 8 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 Troy's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Troy compares
Troy's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,017 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 365 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Troy's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Troy's dates instead of trusting one.