Liberty, NY 12781 Frost Dates
Liberty, NY: when does the frost end?
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.
Liberty sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
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
At roughly 152 frost-free days, Liberty places 34,751 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,475 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12781'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 12781 normal.