Buffalo, NY 14208 Frost Dates
Buffalo, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Buffalo in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Buffalo places 23,729 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 471 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14208's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Buffalo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Buffalo can differ from the 14208 normal.