Sherrill, NY 13461 Frost Dates
13461, near Sherrill, NY: the frost window
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.
Sherrill 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
Sherrill'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
05/06 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.
Sherrill against the rest of the dataset
Sherrill's growing season runs about 157 days, ranking 33,324 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,220 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13461: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sherrill can differ from the 13461 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Sherrill's frost date answer different questions.