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Bloomingburg, NY 12721 Frost Dates

Bloomingburg, NY: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.

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 Bloomingburg, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Bloomingburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Bloomingburg's last frost

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.

Bloomingburg against the rest of the dataset

Bloomingburg's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,230 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 536 of 1,951.

Learn more

Before leaning on 12721's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bloomingburg can differ from the 12721 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bloomingburg's frost date answer different questions.