Lowville, NY 13345 Frost Dates
Lowville, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Lowville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/08 isn't a guarantee
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 36,197 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,659 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13345's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Lowville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lowville's dates instead of trusting one.