Brushton, NY 12980 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Brushton, NY, ZIP 12980
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/04, about 151 frost-free days later.
Brushton 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 4a around Brushton 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 Brushton compares
At roughly 151 frost-free days, Brushton places 35,141 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,557 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4a and Brushton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Brushton's dates instead of trusting one.