Port Dickinson, NY 13833 Frost Dates
13833, near Port Dickinson, NY: the frost window
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.
Port Dickinson 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
Port Dickinson'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.
The actual range around Port Dickinson's last frost
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.
Port Dickinson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Port Dickinson places 31,770 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,017 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13833: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Port Dickinson's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Port Dickinson's dates instead of trusting one.