Walden, NY 12586 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Walden, NY, ZIP 12586
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/11, about 164 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Walden, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Walden has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Walden's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Walden compares
About 164 days separate Walden's last and first frost, putting it 30,900 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 898 of 1,951.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Walden can differ from the 12586 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Walden's frost date answer different questions.