Voorheesville, NY 12228 Frost Dates
12228, near Voorheesville, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/03, roughly 248 days out. 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
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.
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
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Voorheesville places 32,342 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,081 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12228: local microclimates, on what one yard in Voorheesville can differ from the 12228 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Voorheesville's frost date answer different questions.