Clifton Springs, NY 14432 Frost Dates
Clifton Springs, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Clifton Springs 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 8 weeks until Clifton Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clifton Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Clifton Springs's last and first frost, putting it 26,970 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 606 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14432's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Clifton Springs can differ from the 14432 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Clifton Springs's frost date answer different questions.