Blasdell, NY 14280 Frost Dates
14280, 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.
Why 05/07 isn't a guarantee
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
Blasdell's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,648 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,302 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14280: local microclimates, on what one yard in Blasdell can differ from the 14280 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Blasdell's frost date answer different questions.