Saugerties, NY 12526 Frost Dates
12526, near Saugerties, NY: the frost window
Around 05/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 254 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Saugerties in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Saugerties's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/09 isn't a guarantee
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Saugerties against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 147 frost-free days, Saugerties places 35,906 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,614 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12526: the frost range, on how to read the range around Saugerties's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Saugerties can differ from the 12526 normal.