Orchard Park, NY 14273 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Orchard Park, NY, ZIP 14273
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/11, about 156 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Orchard Park in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Orchard Park has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Orchard Park compares
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Orchard Park places 33,623 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,283 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Orchard Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Orchard Park's dates instead of trusting one.