Buffalo, NY 14201 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Buffalo, NY, ZIP 14201
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 183 frost-free days later.
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 Buffalo, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Buffalo has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Buffalo compares
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Buffalo places 23,725 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 467 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Buffalo's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Buffalo can differ from the 14201 normal.