Pulaski, NY 13142 Frost Dates
Pulaski, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/10, roughly 255 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Pulaski 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 7 weeks until Pulaski's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/10 isn't a guarantee
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pulaski against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Pulaski places 33,654 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,306 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13142's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Pulaski's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pulaski's dates instead of trusting one.