Jeffersonville, NY 12766 Frost Dates
12766, near Jeffersonville, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/12, about 257 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 146 days after the last spring frost.
Jeffersonville sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a 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
Jeffersonville's growing season runs about 146 days, ranking 36,120 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,644 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12766: the frost range, on how to read the range around Jeffersonville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Jeffersonville can differ from the 12766 normal.