Waddington, NY 13694 Frost Dates
Waddington, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Waddington 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Waddington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Waddington's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waddington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Waddington places 31,806 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,027 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13694's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Waddington's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Waddington can differ from the 13694 normal.