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Corinth, NY 12835 Frost Dates

12835, near Corinth, NY: the frost window

Zone 5a

Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Corinth in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Corinth's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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

04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Corinth against the rest of the dataset

About 169 days separate Corinth's last and first frost, putting it 29,458 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 813 of 1,951.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 12835: the frost range, on how to read the range around Corinth's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Corinth can differ from the 12835 normal.