Richburg, NY 14786 Frost Dates
Richburg, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
Richburg sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Richburg'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
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Richburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Richburg places 31,522 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 999 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14786's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Richburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Richburg can differ from the 14786 normal.