Depew, NY 14026 Frost Dates
14026, near Depew, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Depew sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Depew's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/24 isn't a guarantee
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Depew against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Depew's last and first frost, putting it 23,791 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 490 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14026: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Depew's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Depew's dates instead of trusting one.