Fayetteville, NY 13066 Frost Dates
13066, near Fayetteville, 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.
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 Fayetteville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fayetteville'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.
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.
Fayetteville against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Fayetteville's last and first frost, putting it 27,884 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 655 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13066: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fayetteville can differ from the 13066 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Fayetteville's frost date answer different questions.