DeRuyter, NY 13072 Frost Dates
Frost dates for DeRuyter, NY, ZIP 13072
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/09, about 156 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 DeRuyter, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around DeRuyter has about 6 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.
The actual range around DeRuyter's last frost
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 DeRuyter compares
At roughly 156 frost-free days, DeRuyter places 33,797 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,353 of 1,951.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in DeRuyter can differ from the 13072 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and DeRuyter's frost date answer different questions.