Gainesville, NY 14130 Frost Dates
14130, near Gainesville, 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 10/10, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gainesville in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Gainesville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gainesville against the rest of the dataset
Gainesville's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,843 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,368 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14130: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Gainesville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Gainesville's dates instead of trusting one.