Arcade, NY 14065 Frost Dates
14065, near Arcade, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 144 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Arcade, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Arcade'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
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arcade against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 144 frost-free days, Arcade places 36,377 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,705 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14065: local microclimates, on what one yard in Arcade can differ from the 14065 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Arcade's frost date answer different questions.