Hobart, NY 12474 Frost Dates
Hobart, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/18, about 263 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 137 days after the last spring frost.
Hobart sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
With roughly 5 weeks until Hobart's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hobart's last frost
05/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hobart against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 137 frost-free days, Hobart places 37,569 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,818 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12474's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hobart can differ from the 12474 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Hobart's frost date answer different questions.