Sodus Point, NY 14563 Frost Dates
14563, near Sodus Point, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sodus Point 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
Sodus Point's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sodus Point against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Sodus Point places 33,083 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,196 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14563: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sodus Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sodus Point can differ from the 14563 normal.