Rushville, NY 14461 Frost Dates
Rushville, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rushville 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Rushville'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.
Rushville against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Rushville's last and first frost, putting it 27,135 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 611 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14461's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Rushville can differ from the 14461 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Rushville's frost date answer different questions.