Jeffersonville, NY 12791 Frost Dates
Jeffersonville, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/12, roughly 257 days out. 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Jeffersonville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
About 146 days separate Jeffersonville's last and first frost, putting it 36,124 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,648 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12791's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Jeffersonville can differ from the 12791 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Jeffersonville's frost date answer different questions.