Elbridge, NY 13060 Frost Dates
13060, near Elbridge, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Elbridge sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elbridge's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Elbridge's last frost
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.
Elbridge against the rest of the dataset
Elbridge's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 27,994 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 674 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13060: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Elbridge's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Elbridge's dates instead of trusting one.