Walton, NY 13856 Frost Dates
Walton, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 266 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 132 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Walton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Walton'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
05/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Walton against the rest of the dataset
About 132 days separate Walton's last and first frost, putting it 38,197 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,891 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13856's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Walton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Walton can differ from the 13856 normal.