Greene, NY 13763 Frost Dates
Greene, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Greene sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Greene's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Greene against the rest of the dataset
About 162 days separate Greene's last and first frost, putting it 31,781 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,023 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13763's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Greene's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Greene can differ from the 13763 normal.