East Syracuse, NY 13214 Frost Dates
13214, near East Syracuse, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
East Syracuse sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
East Syracuse'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.
The actual range around East Syracuse's last frost
04/29 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.
East Syracuse against the rest of the dataset
East Syracuse's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 27,914 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 660 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 13214: local microclimates, on what one yard in East Syracuse can differ from the 13214 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and East Syracuse's frost date answer different questions.