Lancaster, NY 14031 Frost Dates
Lancaster, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Lancaster 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 8 weeks until Lancaster'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
04/24 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.
Lancaster against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Lancaster places 23,811 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 492 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14031's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lancaster's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lancaster can differ from the 14031 normal.