Oriskany Falls, NY 13425 Frost Dates
Oriskany Falls, 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 10/09, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Oriskany Falls 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Oriskany Falls's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Oriskany Falls's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oriskany Falls against the rest of the dataset
About 156 days separate Oriskany Falls's last and first frost, putting it 33,767 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,341 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13425's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Oriskany Falls can differ from the 13425 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Oriskany Falls's frost date answer different questions.