Greene, NY 13848 Frost Dates
13848, near Greene, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Greene 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
Greene'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.
Why 05/02 isn't a guarantee
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.
Greene against the rest of the dataset
Greene's growing season runs about 162 days, ranking 31,782 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,024 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13848: local microclimates, on what one yard in Greene can differ from the 13848 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Greene's frost date answer different questions.