Goshen, NY 12551 Frost Dates
12551, near Goshen, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Goshen in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Goshen's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goshen against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Goshen places 24,123 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 518 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12551: local microclimates, on what one yard in Goshen can differ from the 12551 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Goshen's frost date answer different questions.