Waddington, NY 13621 Frost Dates
Waddington, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 144 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 Waddington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Waddington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/08 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 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waddington against the rest of the dataset
About 144 days separate Waddington's last and first frost, putting it 36,409 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,721 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13621's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Waddington's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Waddington can differ from the 13621 normal.