Hobart, NY 13739 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Hobart, NY?
Around 05/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 264 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/01, about 132 frost-free days later.
Hobart sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 5 weeks of growing season left in Hobart before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Hobart's last frost
05/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hobart compares
At roughly 132 frost-free days, Hobart places 38,218 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,894 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 5b and Hobart's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Hobart's dates instead of trusting one.