North Tonawanda, NY 14132 Frost Dates
14132, near North Tonawanda, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 North Tonawanda, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North Tonawanda's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Tonawanda against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, North Tonawanda places 29,878 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 843 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14132: local microclimates, on what one yard in North Tonawanda can differ from the 14132 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and North Tonawanda's frost date answer different questions.