Norwood, NY 13697 Frost Dates
Norwood, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 144 days after the last spring frost.
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 Norwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Norwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/08 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 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Norwood against the rest of the dataset
About 144 days separate Norwood's last and first frost, putting it 36,390 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,715 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13697's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Norwood's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Norwood's dates instead of trusting one.