Alden, NY 14102 Frost Dates
14102, near Alden, 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.
Alden sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Alden'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.
Why 05/07 isn't a guarantee
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.
Alden against the rest of the dataset
Alden's growing season runs about 155 days, ranking 33,988 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,381 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14102: the frost range, on how to read the range around Alden's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Alden can differ from the 14102 normal.