Moravia, NY 13092 Frost Dates
Moravia, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Moravia sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Moravia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moravia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Moravia places 34,365 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,419 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13092's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Moravia's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Moravia can differ from the 13092 normal.