Richville, NY 13635 Frost Dates
Richville, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/14, roughly 259 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/26, roughly 134 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Richville 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 4 weeks until Richville'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
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Richville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 134 frost-free days, Richville places 38,022 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,878 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13635's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Richville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Richville's dates instead of trusting one.