Voorheesville, NY 12257 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.
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.
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
Voorheesville's growing season runs about 160 days, ranking 32,365 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,104 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12257's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Voorheesville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Voorheesville can differ from the 12257 normal.