Wilson, NY 14131 Frost Dates
Wilson, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wilson in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Wilson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wilson's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wilson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Wilson places 24,629 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 595 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14131's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wilson's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wilson's dates instead of trusting one.