Honeoye Falls, NY 14472 Frost Dates
14472, near Honeoye Falls, 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.
Honeoye Falls 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Honeoye Falls'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.
Honeoye Falls against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Honeoye Falls places 29,995 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 850 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14472: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Honeoye Falls's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Honeoye Falls's dates instead of trusting one.