Ellenville, NY 12483 Frost Dates
Ellenville, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/07, roughly 252 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Ellenville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 6 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
05/07 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 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ellenville against the rest of the dataset
Ellenville's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,759 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,477 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12483's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ellenville can differ from the 12483 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Ellenville's frost date answer different questions.