Spencerport, NY 14624 Frost Dates
14624, near Spencerport, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
Spencerport 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
Spencerport'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
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.
Spencerport against the rest of the dataset
Spencerport's growing season runs about 181 days, ranking 24,532 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 581 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14624: the frost range, on how to read the range around Spencerport's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Spencerport can differ from the 14624 normal.