Cherry Valley, NY 13488 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cherry Valley, NY, ZIP 13488
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/06, about 152 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Cherry Valley, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Cherry Valley has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Cherry Valley's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/24 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cherry Valley compares
About 152 days separate Cherry Valley's last and first frost, putting it 34,867 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,521 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Cherry Valley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Cherry Valley's dates instead of trusting one.