Alexander, NY 14005 Frost Dates
14005, near Alexander, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Alexander 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
Alexander'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.
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.
Alexander against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Alexander places 31,121 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 928 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14005: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Alexander's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Alexander's dates instead of trusting one.