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Constableville, NY 13489 Frost Dates

Constableville, NY: when does the frost end?

Zone 4b

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.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Constableville in Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 7 weeks until Constableville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Constableville'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.

Constableville against the rest of the dataset

Constableville's growing season runs about 157 days, ranking 33,449 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,263 of 1,951.

Learn more

Before leaning on 13489's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Constableville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Constableville can differ from the 13489 normal.