Franklinville, NY 14101 Frost Dates
14101, near Franklinville, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/14, roughly 259 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 144 days after the last spring frost.
Franklinville 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
Franklinville'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.
Franklinville against the rest of the dataset
Franklinville's growing season runs about 144 days, ranking 36,382 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,708 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14101: the frost range, on how to read the range around Franklinville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Franklinville can differ from the 14101 normal.