Webster, NY 14580 Frost Dates
14580, near Webster, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Webster, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Webster's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 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.
Webster against the rest of the dataset
Webster's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,632 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 722 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14580: the frost range, on how to read the range around Webster's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Webster can differ from the 14580 normal.