Lackawanna, NY 14220 Frost Dates
14220, near Lackawanna, NY: the frost window
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.
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 Lackawanna, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lackawanna'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 Lackawanna'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.
Lackawanna against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Lackawanna's last and first frost, putting it 23,774 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 482 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14220: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lackawanna's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lackawanna can differ from the 14220 normal.