Sylvan Beach, NY 13162 Frost Dates
13162, near Sylvan Beach, NY: the frost window
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 157 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sylvan Beach in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Sylvan Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sylvan Beach against the rest of the dataset
Sylvan Beach's growing season runs about 157 days, ranking 33,391 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,248 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13162: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sylvan Beach can differ from the 13162 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Sylvan Beach's frost date answer different questions.