Argyle, NY 12865 Frost Dates
Argyle, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 258 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/29, roughly 137 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Argyle, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Argyle'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
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Argyle against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 137 frost-free days, Argyle places 37,581 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,821 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12865's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Argyle can differ from the 12865 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Argyle's frost date answer different questions.