Blasdell, NY 14240 Frost Dates
14240, near Blasdell, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/07, roughly 252 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Blasdell 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
Blasdell's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blasdell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Blasdell places 33,638 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,292 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14240: local microclimates, on what one yard in Blasdell can differ from the 14240 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Blasdell's frost date answer different questions.