Hamburg, NY 14025 Frost Dates
14025, near Hamburg, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/07, roughly 252 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Hamburg 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
Hamburg's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/07 isn't a guarantee
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 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hamburg against the rest of the dataset
About 156 days separate Hamburg's last and first frost, putting it 33,552 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,265 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14025: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Hamburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hamburg's dates instead of trusting one.