Windsor, NY 13826 Frost Dates
13826, near Windsor, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/12, about 257 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Windsor in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Windsor'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.
Windsor against the rest of the dataset
About 152 days separate Windsor's last and first frost, putting it 34,819 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,498 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13826: local microclimates, on what one yard in Windsor can differ from the 13826 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Windsor's frost date answer different questions.