Beacon, NY 12527 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Beacon, NY, ZIP 12527
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 168 frost-free days later.
Beacon 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Beacon has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Beacon compares
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Beacon places 29,684 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 832 of 1,951.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Beacon can differ from the 12527 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Beacon's frost date answer different questions.