Warsaw, NY 14569 Frost Dates
Warsaw, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Warsaw, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Warsaw's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Warsaw's last frost
05/07 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 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Warsaw against the rest of the dataset
Warsaw's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,617 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,280 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14569's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Warsaw can differ from the 14569 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Warsaw's frost date answer different questions.