Greene, NY 13851 Frost Dates
Greene, NY: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Greene, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Greene's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Greene places 31,783 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,025 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13851's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Greene can differ from the 13851 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Greene's frost date answer different questions.