Wayland, NY 14572 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Wayland, NY, ZIP 14572
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 170 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wayland in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Wayland has about 7 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 Wayland's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Wayland compares
About 170 days separate Wayland's last and first frost, putting it 29,070 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 767 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Wayland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Wayland can differ from the 14572 normal.