Lowville, NY 13627 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Lowville, NY?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/01, about 145 frost-free days later.
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 Lowville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 5 weeks of growing season left in Lowville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Lowville's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lowville compares
About 145 days separate Lowville's last and first frost, putting it 36,200 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,662 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 4b and Lowville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Lowville's dates instead of trusting one.