Philmont, NY 12530 Frost Dates
Philmont, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Philmont, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Philmont's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 32,410 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,123 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12530's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Philmont's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Philmont's dates instead of trusting one.