Albion, NY 14411 Frost Dates
14411, near Albion, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Albion 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
Albion's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Albion's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albion against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Albion's last and first frost, putting it 28,978 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 753 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14411: local microclimates, on what one yard in Albion can differ from the 14411 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Albion's frost date answer different questions.