New Berlin, NY 13485 Frost Dates
New Berlin, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts New Berlin in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until New Berlin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around New Berlin'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.
New Berlin against the rest of the dataset
New Berlin's growing season runs about 145 days, ranking 36,241 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,679 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13485's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in New Berlin can differ from the 13485 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and New Berlin's frost date answer different questions.