North Collins, NY 14111 Frost Dates
14111, near North Collins, NY: the frost window
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Collins in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North Collins'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 04/24 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.
North Collins against the rest of the dataset
About 156 days separate North Collins's last and first frost, putting it 33,704 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,328 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14111: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and North Collins's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around North Collins's dates instead of trusting one.