Dolgeville, NY 13470 Frost Dates
Dolgeville, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 256 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Dolgeville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Dolgeville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Dolgeville's last frost
05/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dolgeville against the rest of the dataset
Dolgeville's growing season runs about 143 days, ranking 36,550 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,738 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13470's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Dolgeville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Dolgeville can differ from the 13470 normal.