Malone, NY 12953 Frost Dates
Malone, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Malone 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Malone's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Malone's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 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.
Malone against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 151 frost-free days, Malone places 35,010 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,526 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12953's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Malone's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Malone can differ from the 12953 normal.