Rushville, NY 14544 Frost Dates
14544, near Rushville, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Rushville sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Rushville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
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.
Rushville against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Rushville's last and first frost, putting it 27,137 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 613 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14544: the frost range, on how to read the range around Rushville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Rushville can differ from the 14544 normal.