Norwood, NY 13660 Frost Dates
13660, near Norwood, NY: the frost window
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.
Norwood 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
Norwood'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.
Why 05/09 isn't a guarantee
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.
Norwood against the rest of the dataset
About 142 days separate Norwood's last and first frost, putting it 36,757 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,765 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13660: local microclimates, on what one yard in Norwood can differ from the 13660 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4b and Norwood's frost date answer different questions.