Farnham, NY 14061 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Farnham, NY, ZIP 14061
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 167 frost-free days later.
Farnham sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Farnham has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Farnham compares
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Farnham places 30,168 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 870 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Farnham's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Farnham's dates instead of trusting one.