Rochester, NY 14604 Frost Dates
14604, near Rochester, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
Rochester sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Rochester'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.
The actual range around Rochester's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rochester against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Rochester places 24,410 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 547 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14604: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Rochester's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Rochester's dates instead of trusting one.