Ellenville, NY 12402 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Ellenville, NY?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/07, about 154 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Ellenville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Ellenville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Ellenville's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Ellenville compares
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Ellenville places 34,275 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,403 of 1,951.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Ellenville can differ from the 12402 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Ellenville's frost date answer different questions.