Elba, NY 14058 Frost Dates
14058, near Elba, NY: the frost window
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Elba in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elba'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 Elba's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elba against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 165 frost-free days, Elba places 30,690 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 889 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14058: the frost range, on how to read the range around Elba's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Elba can differ from the 14058 normal.