Voorheesville, NY 12227 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Voorheesville, NY, ZIP 12227
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/03, roughly 248 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/12, about 160 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Voorheesville 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.
The actual range around Voorheesville's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Voorheesville compares
About 160 days separate Voorheesville's last and first frost, putting it 32,341 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,080 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Voorheesville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Voorheesville's dates instead of trusting one.