Wayland, NY 14560 Frost Dates
Wayland, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 247 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Wayland 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Wayland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/02 isn't a guarantee
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wayland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Wayland places 30,043 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 861 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14560's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wayland can differ from the 14560 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Wayland's frost date answer different questions.