Newport, NY 13416 Frost Dates
13416, near Newport, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/05, about 250 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newport in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Newport'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Newport against the rest of the dataset
About 151 days separate Newport's last and first frost, putting it 35,126 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,550 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13416: local microclimates, on what one yard in Newport can differ from the 13416 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Newport's frost date answer different questions.