Springville, NY 14055 Frost Dates
14055, near Springville, 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.
Springville sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Springville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Springville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Springville places 33,582 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,276 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14055: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Springville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Springville's dates instead of trusting one.