Aurora, NY 13026 Frost Dates
Aurora, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Aurora sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 8 weeks until Aurora's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Aurora against the rest of the dataset
Aurora's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 28,030 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 678 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13026's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Aurora's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Aurora can differ from the 13026 normal.