Tully, NY 13159 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Tully, NY, ZIP 13159
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/09, about 156 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tully in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Tully 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 Tully's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/25 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 Tully compares
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Tully places 33,739 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,333 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Tully's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Tully's dates instead of trusting one.