Solvay, NY 13217 Frost Dates
Solvay, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Solvay 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Solvay's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Solvay against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Solvay places 27,843 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 639 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13217's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Solvay's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Solvay's dates instead of trusting one.