Buffalo, NY 14222 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.
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.
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 23,733 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 475 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14222's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Buffalo can differ from the 14222 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Buffalo's frost date answer different questions.