Croghan, NY 13620 Frost Dates
13620, near Croghan, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/08, about 253 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 145 days after the last spring frost.
Croghan sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Croghan's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Croghan's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Croghan against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 145 frost-free days, Croghan places 36,254 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,686 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13620: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4b and Croghan's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Croghan's dates instead of trusting one.