Niagara Falls, NY 14304 Frost Dates
Niagara Falls, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Niagara Falls 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 7 weeks until Niagara Falls'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
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Niagara Falls against the rest of the dataset
Niagara Falls's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 29,861 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 840 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14304's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Niagara Falls can differ from the 14304 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Niagara Falls's frost date answer different questions.