Newark, NY 14537 Frost Dates
Newark, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newark 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Newark's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Newark's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newark against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Newark places 26,827 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 605 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14537's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Newark's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Newark's dates instead of trusting one.