Bainbridge, NY 13733 Frost Dates
13733, near Bainbridge, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/11, roughly 256 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Bainbridge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bainbridge'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.
The actual range around Bainbridge's last frost
05/11 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 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bainbridge against the rest of the dataset
About 151 days separate Bainbridge's last and first frost, putting it 35,073 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,541 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13733: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Bainbridge's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bainbridge's dates instead of trusting one.