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Canton, NY 13645 Frost Dates

Canton, NY: when does the frost end?

Zone 4b

Around 05/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 254 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 142 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Canton 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 5 weeks until Canton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Canton's last frost

05/09 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 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Canton against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 142 frost-free days, Canton places 36,721 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,759 of 1,951.

Learn more

Before leaning on 13645's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Canton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Canton can differ from the 13645 normal.