Arcade, NY 14083 Frost Dates
14083, near Arcade, 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 10/10, roughly 155 days after the last spring frost.
Arcade 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
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.
The actual range around Arcade's last frost
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 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.
Arcade against the rest of the dataset
Arcade's growing season runs about 155 days, ranking 33,996 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,383 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14083: local microclimates, on what one yard in Arcade can differ from the 14083 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Arcade's frost date answer different questions.