Newark, NY 14489 Frost Dates
14489, near Newark, NY: the frost window
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newark 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
Newark's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/06 isn't a guarantee
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newark against the rest of the dataset
Newark's growing season runs about 158 days, ranking 32,938 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,150 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14489: local microclimates, on what one yard in Newark can differ from the 14489 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Newark's frost date answer different questions.