Otisville, NY 12785 Frost Dates
12785, near Otisville, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/07, roughly 252 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Otisville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Otisville'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 Otisville'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.
Otisville against the rest of the dataset
About 152 days separate Otisville's last and first frost, putting it 34,813 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,494 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12785: the frost range, on how to read the range around Otisville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Otisville can differ from the 12785 normal.