Saranac Lake, NY 12945 Frost Dates
Saranac Lake, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 06/02, roughly 278 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/09, roughly 97 days after the last spring frost.
Saranac Lake sits in USDA Zone 4a (-30 to -25°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 2 weeks until Saranac Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Saranac Lake's last frost
06/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Saranac Lake against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 97 frost-free days, Saranac Lake places 39,772 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,948 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12945's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Saranac Lake's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Saranac Lake can differ from the 12945 normal.