Voorheesville, NY 12226 Frost Dates
Voorheesville, NY: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Voorheesville 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Voorheesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 32,340 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,079 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12226's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Voorheesville can differ from the 12226 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Voorheesville's frost date answer different questions.