Washingtonville, NY 12577 Frost Dates
12577, near Washingtonville, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Washingtonville 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
Washingtonville'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.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Washingtonville against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Washingtonville's last and first frost, putting it 30,908 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 901 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12577: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Washingtonville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Washingtonville's dates instead of trusting one.