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Nelliston, NY 13410 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Nelliston, NY, ZIP 13410

Zone 5b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/06, about 152 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Nelliston in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 5b around Nelliston has about 6 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

05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/24 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Nelliston compares

At roughly 152 frost-free days, Nelliston places 34,853 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,512 of 1,951.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Nelliston's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Nelliston can differ from the 13410 normal.