Youngstown, NY 14174 Frost Dates
Youngstown, 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.
Youngstown sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Youngstown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
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.
Youngstown against the rest of the dataset
Youngstown's growing season runs about 181 days, ranking 24,603 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 589 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14174's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Youngstown's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Youngstown can differ from the 14174 normal.