Pittsford, NY 14534 Frost Dates
14534, near Pittsford, NY: the frost window
Around 05/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 247 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pittsford 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
Pittsford'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Pittsford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Pittsford places 30,067 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 867 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14534: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pittsford can differ from the 14534 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Pittsford's frost date answer different questions.