Auburn, NY 13021 Frost Dates
Auburn, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Auburn, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Auburn's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Auburn against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Auburn places 27,791 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 629 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13021's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Auburn's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Auburn's dates instead of trusting one.