Ellenville, NY 12458 Frost Dates
Ellenville, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Ellenville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Ellenville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ellenville's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ellenville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Ellenville places 22,020 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 429 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12458's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ellenville can differ from the 12458 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Ellenville's frost date answer different questions.