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Livonia, NY 14471 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Livonia, NY, ZIP 14471

Zone 6a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/10, roughly 255 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/04, about 147 frost-free days later.

Livonia sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6a around Livonia has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Livonia's last frost

05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Livonia compares

At roughly 147 frost-free days, Livonia places 35,931 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,618 of 1,951.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Livonia's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Livonia can differ from the 14471 normal.