Munnsville, NY 13362 Frost Dates
13362, near Munnsville, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 156 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 Munnsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Munnsville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Munnsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Munnsville places 33,791 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,347 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13362: the frost range, on how to read the range around Munnsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Munnsville can differ from the 13362 normal.