Otisville, NY 12729 Frost Dates
Otisville, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Otisville 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Otisville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Otisville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Otisville places 33,068 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,189 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12729's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Otisville can differ from the 12729 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Otisville's frost date answer different questions.