Fredonia, NY 14166 Frost Dates
14166, near Fredonia, NY: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fredonia in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Fredonia'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 Fredonia's last frost
04/30 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 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fredonia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Fredonia places 26,824 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 604 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14166: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fredonia can differ from the 14166 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Fredonia's frost date answer different questions.