Antwerp, NY 13671 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Antwerp, NY?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 09/26, about 134 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 Antwerp, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 4 weeks of growing season left in Antwerp before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Antwerp's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Antwerp compares
At roughly 134 frost-free days, Antwerp places 38,012 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,873 of 1,951.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Antwerp can differ from the 13671 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 4b and Antwerp's frost date answer different questions.