Ellenville, NY 12441 Frost Dates
12441, near Ellenville, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Ellenville sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Ellenville'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 05/06 isn't a guarantee
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 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.
Ellenville against the rest of the dataset
About 154 days separate Ellenville's last and first frost, putting it 34,276 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,404 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12441: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ellenville can differ from the 12441 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Ellenville's frost date answer different questions.