Deposit, NY 13754 Frost Dates
13754, near Deposit, NY: the frost window
Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Deposit 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Deposit'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Deposit against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 152 frost-free days, Deposit places 34,792 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,488 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13754: the frost range, on how to read the range around Deposit's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Deposit can differ from the 13754 normal.