Minoa, NY 13082 Frost Dates
13082, near Minoa, NY: the frost window
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Minoa 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
Minoa'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.
Minoa against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Minoa places 27,889 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 656 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13082: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Minoa's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Minoa's dates instead of trusting one.