Fleischmanns, NY 12480 Frost Dates
12480, near Fleischmanns, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Fleischmanns 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
Fleischmanns'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.
The actual range around Fleischmanns's last frost
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.
Fleischmanns against the rest of the dataset
Fleischmanns's growing season runs about 154 days, ranking 34,448 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,438 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12480: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Fleischmanns's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fleischmanns's dates instead of trusting one.