Oriskany, NY 13403 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Oriskany, NY, ZIP 13403
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/13, about 157 frost-free days later.
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 Oriskany, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Oriskany 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.
The actual range around Oriskany's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Oriskany compares
About 157 days separate Oriskany's last and first frost, putting it 33,364 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,239 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Oriskany's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Oriskany can differ from the 13403 normal.