FrostDateCheck

Spencerport, NY 14626 Frost Dates

Spencerport, NY: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

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.

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 Spencerport, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Spencerport'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.

Spencerport against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 181 frost-free days, Spencerport places 24,533 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 582 of 1,951.

Learn more

Before leaning on 14626's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Spencerport's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Spencerport can differ from the 14626 normal.