Waterloo, NY 13165 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Waterloo, NY?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 173 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Waterloo in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Waterloo before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Waterloo's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Waterloo compares
About 173 days separate Waterloo's last and first frost, putting it 27,878 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 652 of 1,951.
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