Malone, NY 12969 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Malone, NY, ZIP 12969
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/04, about 151 frost-free days later.
Zone 4a (-30 to -25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Malone, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 4a around Malone has about 5 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.
Why 05/06 isn't a guarantee
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Malone compares
At roughly 151 frost-free days, Malone places 35,011 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,527 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4a and Malone's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Malone's dates instead of trusting one.