Tully, NY 13084 Frost Dates
13084, near Tully, 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.
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 Tully, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tully'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.
Tully against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Tully's last and first frost, putting it 28,005 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 675 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13084: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tully can differ from the 13084 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Tully's frost date answer different questions.