Whitney Point, NY 13744 Frost Dates
Whitney Point, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 247 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Whitney Point, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Whitney Point's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Whitney Point's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Whitney Point against the rest of the dataset
Whitney Point's growing season runs about 162 days, ranking 31,810 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,028 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13744's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Whitney Point can differ from the 13744 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Whitney Point's frost date answer different questions.