Clayville, NY 13456 Frost Dates
Clayville, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 157 days after the last spring frost.
Clayville 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Clayville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Clayville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 157 frost-free days, Clayville places 33,443 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,262 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13456's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Clayville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Clayville can differ from the 13456 normal.