Arcade, NY 14133 Frost Dates
14133, near Arcade, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 144 days after the last spring frost.
Arcade sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Arcade'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
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arcade against the rest of the dataset
Arcade's growing season runs about 144 days, ranking 36,378 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,706 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14133: local microclimates, on what one yard in Arcade can differ from the 14133 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Arcade's frost date answer different questions.