Madison, NY 13310 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Madison, NY, ZIP 13310
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/09, about 156 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison'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 Madison compares
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Madison places 33,823 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,363 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Madison's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Madison's dates instead of trusting one.