Gowanda, NY 14129 Frost Dates
14129, near Gowanda, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/05, about 250 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Gowanda, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gowanda's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Gowanda's last frost
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gowanda against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Gowanda's last and first frost, putting it 30,007 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 857 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14129: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gowanda can differ from the 14129 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Gowanda's frost date answer different questions.