Tannersville, NY 12436 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Tannersville, NY, ZIP 12436
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/20, roughly 265 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 09/27, about 129 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 Tannersville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Tannersville has about 4 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
Why 05/20 isn't a guarantee
05/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Tannersville compares
At roughly 129 frost-free days, Tannersville places 38,485 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,909 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Tannersville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Tannersville can differ from the 12436 normal.