Hilton, NY 14515 Frost Dates
Hilton, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
Hilton sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 8 weeks until Hilton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hilton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Hilton places 24,504 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 566 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14515's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Hilton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hilton's dates instead of trusting one.