Orchard Park, NY 14127 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Orchard Park, NY, ZIP 14127
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/11, about 156 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Orchard Park in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Orchard Park has about 6 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 Orchard Park's last frost
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Orchard Park compares
About 156 days separate Orchard Park's last and first frost, putting it 33,622 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,282 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Orchard Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Orchard Park can differ from the 14127 normal.