Fabius, NY 13138 Frost Dates
Fabius, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. 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 Fabius 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Fabius's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fabius's last frost
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.
Fabius against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Fabius's last and first frost, putting it 28,071 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 685 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13138's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fabius can differ from the 13138 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Fabius's frost date answer different questions.