Cold Brook, NY 13353 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cold Brook, NY, ZIP 13353
Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/13, about 161 frost-free days later.
Cold Brook sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 4b around Cold Brook has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cold Brook compares
At roughly 161 frost-free days, Cold Brook places 32,169 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,060 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Cold Brook's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Cold Brook can differ from the 13353 normal.