Fredonia, NY 14063 Frost Dates
14063, near Fredonia, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fredonia in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Fredonia's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 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.
Fredonia against the rest of the dataset
About 185 days separate Fredonia's last and first frost, putting it 23,093 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 453 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14063: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Fredonia's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fredonia's dates instead of trusting one.