Liberty, NY 12767 Frost Dates
Liberty, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Liberty, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Liberty's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Liberty'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.
Liberty against the rest of the dataset
About 152 days separate Liberty's last and first frost, putting it 34,750 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,474 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12767's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Liberty's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Liberty can differ from the 12767 normal.