Arcade, NY 14009 Frost Dates
Arcade, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Arcade, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Arcade's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Arcade's last frost
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arcade against the rest of the dataset
Arcade's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,668 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,313 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14009's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Arcade's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Arcade's dates instead of trusting one.