Munnsville, NY 13465 Frost Dates
13465, near Munnsville, 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 10/09, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Munnsville 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
Munnsville'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.
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 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Munnsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Munnsville places 33,794 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,350 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13465: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Munnsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Munnsville's dates instead of trusting one.