Mohawk, NY 13407 Frost Dates
13407, near Mohawk, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
Mohawk sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mohawk's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/05 isn't a guarantee
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mohawk against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 151 frost-free days, Mohawk places 35,049 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,535 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13407: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Mohawk's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Mohawk's dates instead of trusting one.