Fabius, NY 13051 Frost Dates
13051, near Fabius, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fabius in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Fabius's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Fabius against the rest of the dataset
About 156 days separate Fabius's last and first frost, putting it 33,818 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,359 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13051: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fabius can differ from the 13051 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Fabius's frost date answer different questions.