Ovid, NY 14521 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Ovid, NY, ZIP 14521
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 173 frost-free days later.
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 Ovid, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Ovid has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Ovid's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Ovid compares
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Ovid places 28,045 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 682 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Ovid's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Ovid can differ from the 14521 normal.