Castile, NY 14536 Frost Dates
Castile, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Castile sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 6 weeks until Castile'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
05/07 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 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Castile against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Castile places 33,728 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,331 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14536's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Castile can differ from the 14536 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Castile's frost date answer different questions.