Hunter, NY 12492 Frost Dates
Hunter, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/20, roughly 265 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/27, roughly 129 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Hunter, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 4 weeks until Hunter's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hunter's last frost
05/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hunter against the rest of the dataset
Hunter's growing season runs about 129 days, ranking 38,500 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,917 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12492's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Hunter's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hunter's dates instead of trusting one.