New York Mills, NY 13417 Frost Dates
New York Mills, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 157 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts New York Mills in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
With roughly 7 weeks until New York Mills's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around New York Mills's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 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.
New York Mills against the rest of the dataset
About 157 days separate New York Mills's last and first frost, putting it 33,321 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,219 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13417's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and New York Mills's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around New York Mills's dates instead of trusting one.