Margaretville, NY 13731 Frost Dates
Margaretville, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/19, roughly 264 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 132 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Margaretville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Margaretville'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
05/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Margaretville against the rest of the dataset
About 132 days separate Margaretville's last and first frost, putting it 38,215 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,893 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13731's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Margaretville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Margaretville's dates instead of trusting one.