Dresden, NY 14415 Frost Dates
Dresden, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Dresden, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Dresden'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
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dresden against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Dresden places 28,077 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 686 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14415's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Dresden can differ from the 14415 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Dresden's frost date answer different questions.