Lake George, NY 12844 Frost Dates
12844, near Lake George, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/09, roughly 254 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
Lake George sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
Lake George's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lake George's last frost
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake George against the rest of the dataset
Lake George's growing season runs about 143 days, ranking 36,563 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,742 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12844: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Lake George's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake George's dates instead of trusting one.