Montgomery, NY 12549 Frost Dates
Montgomery, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
Montgomery 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Montgomery'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
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Montgomery against the rest of the dataset
About 163 days separate Montgomery's last and first frost, putting it 31,385 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 939 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12549's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Montgomery's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Montgomery's dates instead of trusting one.