Buffalo, NY 14204 Frost Dates
Buffalo, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Buffalo 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 8 weeks until Buffalo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Buffalo's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Buffalo against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Buffalo's last and first frost, putting it 23,728 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 470 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14204's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Buffalo can differ from the 14204 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Buffalo's frost date answer different questions.