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Parish, NY 13107 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Parish, NY, ZIP 13107

Zone 5b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/10, about 255 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 156 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Parish in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 5b around Parish has about 7 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 Parish's last frost

05/10 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. 05/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Parish compares

About 156 days separate Parish's last and first frost, putting it 33,788 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,344 of 1,951.

Learn more

local microclimates explains what one yard in Parish can differ from the 13107 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Parish's frost date answer different questions.