Ellenville, NY 12566 Frost Dates
12566, near Ellenville, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ellenville 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
Ellenville'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 Ellenville's last frost
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.
Ellenville against the rest of the dataset
Ellenville's growing season runs about 163 days, ranking 31,382 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 936 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12566: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ellenville can differ from the 12566 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Ellenville's frost date answer different questions.