Buchanan, NY 10986 Frost Dates
Buchanan, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Buchanan in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 9 weeks until Buchanan's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Buchanan's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Buchanan against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Buchanan's last and first frost, putting it 16,626 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 311 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10986's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Buchanan's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Buchanan can differ from the 10986 normal.