Jeffersonville, NY 12726 Frost Dates
12726, near Jeffersonville, NY: the frost window
Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 146 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Jeffersonville in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Jeffersonville'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 Jeffersonville's last frost
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jeffersonville against the rest of the dataset
About 146 days separate Jeffersonville's last and first frost, putting it 36,112 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,636 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12726: local microclimates, on what one yard in Jeffersonville can differ from the 12726 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Jeffersonville's frost date answer different questions.