Frankfort, NY 13340 Frost Dates
Frankfort, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/05, about 250 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Frankfort, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Frankfort's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Frankfort's last frost
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.
Frankfort against the rest of the dataset
Frankfort's growing season runs about 151 days, ranking 35,053 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,537 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13340's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Frankfort's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Frankfort can differ from the 13340 normal.