Voorheesville, NY 12240 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.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Voorheesville, not a forecast for this year.
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.
The actual range around Voorheesville's last frost
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
Voorheesville's growing season runs about 160 days, ranking 32,354 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,093 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12240's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Voorheesville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Voorheesville's dates instead of trusting one.