Pulaski, NY 13302 Frost Dates
13302, near Pulaski, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/10, about 255 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Pulaski sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pulaski'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
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pulaski against the rest of the dataset
About 156 days separate Pulaski's last and first frost, putting it 33,656 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,308 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13302: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pulaski can differ from the 13302 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Pulaski's frost date answer different questions.