Rochester, NY 14611 Frost Dates
Rochester, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rochester 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Rochester's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 24,416 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 553 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14611's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Rochester's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Rochester can differ from the 14611 normal.