Hilton, NY 14430 Frost Dates
14430, near Hilton, NY: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 181 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 Hilton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hilton'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 Hilton's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hilton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Hilton places 24,503 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 565 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14430: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hilton can differ from the 14430 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hilton's frost date answer different questions.