Sherman, NY 14781 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Sherman, NY?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 197 frost-free days later.
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 Sherman, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Sherman before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Sherman's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sherman compares
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Sherman places 18,752 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 340 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6a and Sherman's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Sherman's dates instead of trusting one.