Newark, NY 14513 Frost Dates
14513, 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.
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 Newark, not a forecast for this year.
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.
The actual range around Newark's last frost
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
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Newark places 32,939 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,151 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14513: local microclimates, on what one yard in Newark can differ from the 14513 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Newark's frost date answer different questions.