Champlain, NY 12919 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Champlain, NY, ZIP 12919
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/12, about 164 frost-free days later.
Champlain 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5a around Champlain has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Champlain's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Champlain compares
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Champlain places 31,046 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 920 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Champlain's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Champlain can differ from the 12919 normal.