Buchanan, NY 10548 Frost Dates
10548, near Buchanan, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 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 Buchanan, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Buchanan's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Buchanan against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Buchanan's last and first frost, putting it 28,337 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 716 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10548: the frost range, on how to read the range around Buchanan's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Buchanan can differ from the 10548 normal.