Lyndonville, NY 14429 Frost Dates
14429, near Lyndonville, NY: the frost window
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lyndonville 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
Lyndonville'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 Lyndonville'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.
Lyndonville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Lyndonville places 29,150 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 771 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14429: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lyndonville can differ from the 14429 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Lyndonville's frost date answer different questions.