Smyrna, NY 13464 Frost Dates
Smyrna, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 258 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 145 days after the last spring frost.
Smyrna 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 5 weeks until Smyrna's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Smyrna's last frost
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Smyrna against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 145 frost-free days, Smyrna places 36,292 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,692 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13464's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Smyrna's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Smyrna's dates instead of trusting one.