Margaretville, NY 12455 Frost Dates
12455, near Margaretville, NY: the frost window
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Margaretville in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Margaretville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Margaretville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Margaretville places 34,410 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,426 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12455: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Margaretville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Margaretville's dates instead of trusting one.