Remsen, NY 13352 Frost Dates
Remsen, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Remsen, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Remsen's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Remsen's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 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.
Remsen against the rest of the dataset
Remsen's growing season runs about 161 days, ranking 32,144 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,053 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13352's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Remsen can differ from the 13352 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Remsen's frost date answer different questions.