Wurtsboro, NY 12790 Frost Dates
12790, near Wurtsboro, 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.
Wurtsboro 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
Wurtsboro'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Wurtsboro against the rest of the dataset
Wurtsboro's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,808 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,493 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12790: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Wurtsboro's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wurtsboro's dates instead of trusting one.