North Tonawanda, NY 14228 Frost Dates
North Tonawanda, 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.
North Tonawanda 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 North Tonawanda'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.
North Tonawanda against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 183 frost-free days, North Tonawanda places 23,768 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 480 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14228's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and North Tonawanda's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around North Tonawanda's dates instead of trusting one.