Hunter, NY 12454 Frost Dates
12454, near Hunter, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/20, roughly 265 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/27, roughly 129 days after the last spring frost.
Hunter 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
Hunter's growing season runs out in roughly 4 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Hunter's last frost
05/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hunter against the rest of the dataset
Hunter's growing season runs about 129 days, ranking 38,499 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,916 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12454: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hunter's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hunter can differ from the 12454 normal.