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Clyde, NY 13154 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Clyde, NY, ZIP 13154

Zone 6a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/10, about 158 frost-free days later.

Clyde sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6a around Clyde has about 6 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 Clyde's last frost

05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Clyde compares

At roughly 158 frost-free days, Clyde places 32,998 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,171 of 1,951.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Clyde's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Clyde's dates instead of trusting one.