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Cohocton, NY 14826 Frost Dates

Cohocton, NY: when does the frost end?

Zone 5b

Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 144 days after the last spring frost.

Cohocton 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 5 weeks until Cohocton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Cohocton's last frost

05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Cohocton against the rest of the dataset

About 144 days separate Cohocton's last and first frost, putting it 36,419 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,723 of 1,951.

Learn more

Before leaning on 14826's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Cohocton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Cohocton's dates instead of trusting one.