Hobart, NY 13842 Frost Dates
Hobart, 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.
Hobart 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Hobart's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hobart's last frost
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.
Hobart against the rest of the dataset
About 132 days separate Hobart's last and first frost, putting it 38,220 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,896 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13842's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hobart's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hobart can differ from the 13842 normal.