Pawling, NY 12564 Frost Dates
Pawling, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Pawling 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Pawling's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/28 isn't a guarantee
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pawling against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Pawling places 29,051 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 766 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12564's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pawling can differ from the 12564 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Pawling's frost date answer different questions.