Victor, NY 14453 Frost Dates
14453, near Victor, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Victor 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
Victor's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/02 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 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Victor against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Victor's last and first frost, putting it 30,001 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 852 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14453: local microclimates, on what one yard in Victor can differ from the 14453 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Victor's frost date answer different questions.