Holland Patent, NY 13304 Frost Dates
Holland Patent, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Holland Patent, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Holland Patent's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/04 isn't a guarantee
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Holland Patent against the rest of the dataset
Holland Patent's growing season runs about 161 days, ranking 32,149 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,057 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13304's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Holland Patent's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Holland Patent's dates instead of trusting one.