Cooperstown, NY 13337 Frost Dates
Cooperstown, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Cooperstown 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Cooperstown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cooperstown's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cooperstown against the rest of the dataset
Cooperstown's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,786 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,485 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13337's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Cooperstown's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Cooperstown's dates instead of trusting one.