Albion, NY 14477 Frost Dates
14477, near Albion, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Albion, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Albion's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Albion's last frost
05/01 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 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albion against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Albion places 28,979 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 754 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14477: local microclimates, on what one yard in Albion can differ from the 14477 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Albion's frost date answer different questions.