Woodridge, NY 12733 Frost Dates
12733, near Woodridge, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Woodridge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Woodridge'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 Woodridge's last frost
05/07 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 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodridge against the rest of the dataset
Woodridge's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,838 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,505 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12733: local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodridge can differ from the 12733 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Woodridge's frost date answer different questions.