Lake Placid, NY 12855 Frost Dates
Lake Placid, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/05, about 250 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
Lake Placid sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 5 weeks until Lake Placid's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/05 isn't a guarantee
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Placid against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 151 frost-free days, Lake Placid places 35,052 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,536 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12855's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Placid's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Placid can differ from the 12855 normal.