Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 Frost Dates
13428, near Palatine Bridge, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Palatine Bridge 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
Palatine Bridge's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Palatine Bridge's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Palatine Bridge against the rest of the dataset
Palatine Bridge's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,825 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,500 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13428: the frost range, on how to read the range around Palatine Bridge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Palatine Bridge can differ from the 13428 normal.