Speculator, NY 12812 Frost Dates
Speculator, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/23, about 268 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/27, roughly 125 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 4a (-30 to -25°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 Speculator, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 4 weeks until Speculator's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Speculator's last frost
05/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Speculator against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 125 frost-free days, Speculator places 38,796 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,929 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12812's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Speculator's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Speculator can differ from the 12812 normal.