Whitehall, NY 12887 Frost Dates
12887, near Whitehall, NY: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Whitehall 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
Whitehall's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Whitehall's last frost
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 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Whitehall against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Whitehall's last and first frost, putting it 30,975 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 911 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12887: the frost range, on how to read the range around Whitehall's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Whitehall can differ from the 12887 normal.