Fishkill, NY 12524 Frost Dates
12524, near Fishkill, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Fishkill, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fishkill's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Fishkill's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fishkill against the rest of the dataset
Fishkill's growing season runs about 168 days, ranking 29,724 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 836 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12524: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Fishkill's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fishkill's dates instead of trusting one.