Norwood, NY 13668 Frost Dates
13668, near Norwood, NY: the frost window
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Norwood 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
Norwood's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Norwood against the rest of the dataset
About 156 days separate Norwood's last and first frost, putting it 33,686 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,325 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13668: local microclimates, on what one yard in Norwood can differ from the 13668 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4b and Norwood's frost date answer different questions.