Fort Edward, NY 12828 Frost Dates
Fort Edward, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/17, roughly 262 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/29, roughly 135 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Fort Edward, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Fort Edward's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Edward against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 135 frost-free days, Fort Edward places 37,862 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,841 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12828's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Fort Edward's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fort Edward's dates instead of trusting one.