Voorheesville, NY 12224 Frost Dates
12224, near Voorheesville, NY: the frost window
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Voorheesville 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
Voorheesville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/03 isn't a guarantee
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Voorheesville against the rest of the dataset
About 160 days separate Voorheesville's last and first frost, putting it 32,338 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,077 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12224: local microclimates, on what one yard in Voorheesville can differ from the 12224 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Voorheesville's frost date answer different questions.