Fleischmanns, NY 12410 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Fleischmanns, NY?
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/07, about 154 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Fleischmanns, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Fleischmanns before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Fleischmanns'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 Fleischmanns compares
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Fleischmanns places 34,445 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,435 of 1,951.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Fleischmanns can differ from the 12410 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 5b and Fleischmanns's frost date answer different questions.