Sandy Creek, NY 13145 Frost Dates
Sandy Creek, 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.
Sandy Creek 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 Sandy Creek'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.
Sandy Creek against the rest of the dataset
About 156 days separate Sandy Creek's last and first frost, putting it 33,770 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,342 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13145's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Sandy Creek's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Sandy Creek can differ from the 13145 normal.