Oriskany Falls, NY 13328 Frost Dates
13328, near Oriskany Falls, NY: the frost window
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 157 days after the last spring frost.
Oriskany Falls 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
Oriskany Falls'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
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 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.
Oriskany Falls against the rest of the dataset
About 157 days separate Oriskany Falls's last and first frost, putting it 33,413 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,254 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13328: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Oriskany Falls's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Oriskany Falls's dates instead of trusting one.