Chateaugay, NY 12933 Frost Dates
12933, near Chateaugay, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 157 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Chateaugay in Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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
Chateaugay'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 Chateaugay's last frost
05/06 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 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chateaugay against the rest of the dataset
About 157 days separate Chateaugay's last and first frost, putting it 33,401 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,251 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12933: the frost range, on how to read the range around Chateaugay's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Chateaugay can differ from the 12933 normal.