Scotia, NY 12345 Frost Dates
12345, near Scotia, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/07, roughly 252 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 153 days after the last spring frost.
Scotia 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
Scotia'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.
Why 05/07 isn't a guarantee
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scotia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 153 frost-free days, Scotia places 34,524 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,445 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12345: local microclimates, on what one yard in Scotia can differ from the 12345 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Scotia's frost date answer different questions.