Clayville, NY 13322 Frost Dates
13322, near Clayville, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 151 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 Clayville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Clayville's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 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.
Clayville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 151 frost-free days, Clayville places 35,157 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,560 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13322: local microclimates, on what one yard in Clayville can differ from the 13322 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Clayville's frost date answer different questions.