Philmont, NY 12529 Frost Dates
12529, near Philmont, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Philmont sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Philmont's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Philmont's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Philmont against the rest of the dataset
About 160 days separate Philmont's last and first frost, putting it 32,409 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,122 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12529: local microclimates, on what one yard in Philmont can differ from the 12529 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Philmont's frost date answer different questions.