Fair Haven, NY 13156 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Fair Haven, NY, ZIP 13156
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 187 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Fair Haven, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Fair Haven has about 9 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fair Haven compares
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Fair Haven places 22,513 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 449 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Fair Haven's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Fair Haven can differ from the 13156 normal.