Corfu, NY 14040 Frost Dates
14040, near Corfu, NY: the frost window
Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Corfu, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Corfu'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.
The actual range around Corfu's last frost
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.
Corfu against the rest of the dataset
Corfu's growing season runs about 164 days, ranking 31,095 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 926 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14040: the frost range, on how to read the range around Corfu's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Corfu can differ from the 14040 normal.