Hamburg, NY 14085 Frost Dates
Hamburg, NY: when does the frost end?
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.
Hamburg sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Hamburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hamburg's last frost
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.
Hamburg against the rest of the dataset
About 156 days separate Hamburg's last and first frost, putting it 33,554 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,267 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14085's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Hamburg's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hamburg's dates instead of trusting one.