Lowville, NY 13343 Frost Dates
13343, near Lowville, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/08, about 253 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 145 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 Lowville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lowville'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
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lowville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 145 frost-free days, Lowville places 36,196 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,658 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13343: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lowville can differ from the 13343 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4b and Lowville's frost date answer different questions.