FrostDateCheck

Holland Patent, NY 13469 Frost Dates

Holland Patent, NY: when does the frost end?

Zone 5b

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.

Holland Patent 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 7 weeks until Holland Patent's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Holland Patent's last frost

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.

Holland Patent against the rest of the dataset

Holland Patent's growing season runs about 157 days, ranking 33,435 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,260 of 1,951.

Learn more

Before leaning on 13469's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Holland Patent's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Holland Patent can differ from the 13469 normal.