Laurens, NY 13796 Frost Dates
13796, near Laurens, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/17, roughly 262 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 141 days after the last spring frost.
Laurens 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
Laurens's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/17 isn't a guarantee
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Laurens against the rest of the dataset
About 141 days separate Laurens's last and first frost, putting it 36,992 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,789 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13796: local microclimates, on what one yard in Laurens can differ from the 13796 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Laurens's frost date answer different questions.