Remsen, NY 13435 Frost Dates
13435, near Remsen, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Remsen sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
Remsen's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Remsen against the rest of the dataset
Remsen's growing season runs about 161 days, ranking 32,145 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,054 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13435: local microclimates, on what one yard in Remsen can differ from the 13435 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Remsen's frost date answer different questions.