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Sodus Point, NY 14555 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Sodus Point, NY, ZIP 14555

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/10, about 158 frost-free days later.

Sodus Point sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6b around Sodus Point has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Sodus Point's last frost

05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Sodus Point compares

About 158 days separate Sodus Point's last and first frost, putting it 33,082 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,195 of 1,951.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sodus Point's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Sodus Point's dates instead of trusting one.