Adams, NY 13606 Frost Dates
Adams, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Adams in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Adams's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Adams's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Adams against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Adams places 31,421 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 954 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13606's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Adams's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Adams can differ from the 13606 normal.