Hancock, NY 18417 Frost Dates
Hancock, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 146 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hancock in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Hancock's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hancock's last frost
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 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.
Hancock against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 146 frost-free days, Hancock places 36,077 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,632 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18417's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hancock's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hancock can differ from the 18417 normal.