Scottsville, NY 14546 Frost Dates
14546, near Scottsville, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Scottsville 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
Scottsville'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.
The actual range around Scottsville's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scottsville against the rest of the dataset
About 163 days separate Scottsville's last and first frost, putting it 31,407 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 947 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14546: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Scottsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Scottsville's dates instead of trusting one.