Voorheesville, NY 12231 Frost Dates
Voorheesville, NY: when does the frost end?
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.
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
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.
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
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Voorheesville places 32,345 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,084 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12231's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Voorheesville can differ from the 12231 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Voorheesville's frost date answer different questions.