Cayuga, NY 13148 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cayuga, NY, ZIP 13148
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 173 frost-free days later.
Cayuga 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Cayuga has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Cayuga's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cayuga compares
About 173 days separate Cayuga's last and first frost, putting it 28,044 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 681 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Cayuga's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Cayuga can differ from the 13148 normal.