Cleveland, NY 13044 Frost Dates
13044, near Cleveland, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Cleveland 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
Cleveland's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/04 isn't a guarantee
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cleveland against the rest of the dataset
Cleveland's growing season runs about 158 days, ranking 33,090 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,198 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13044: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cleveland can differ from the 13044 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Cleveland's frost date answer different questions.