Wilson, NY 14107 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Wilson, NY, ZIP 14107
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 181 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Wilson, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Wilson has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Wilson's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Wilson compares
About 181 days separate Wilson's last and first frost, putting it 24,627 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 593 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wilson's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Wilson's dates instead of trusting one.