Palmyra, NY 14522 Frost Dates
14522, near Palmyra, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 167 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 Palmyra, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Palmyra's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/02 isn't a guarantee
05/02 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 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Palmyra against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Palmyra places 29,987 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 849 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14522: local microclimates, on what one yard in Palmyra can differ from the 14522 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Palmyra's frost date answer different questions.