Sloan, NY 14212 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Sloan, NY?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 183 frost-free days later.
Sloan 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
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Sloan before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Sloan's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sloan compares
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Sloan places 23,857 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 505 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Sloan's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Sloan can differ from the 14212 normal.