Walton, NY 13782 Frost Dates
Walton, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/19, roughly 264 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 132 days after the last spring frost.
Walton sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 5 weeks until Walton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/19 isn't a guarantee
05/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Walton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 132 frost-free days, Walton places 38,196 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,890 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13782's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Walton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Walton can differ from the 13782 normal.