Newark Valley, NY 13736 Frost Dates
13736, near Newark Valley, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/13, roughly 258 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 145 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newark Valley in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Newark Valley's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/13 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 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newark Valley against the rest of the dataset
About 145 days separate Newark Valley's last and first frost, putting it 36,242 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,680 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13736: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Newark Valley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Newark Valley's dates instead of trusting one.