Hilton, NY 14694 Frost Dates
14694, near Hilton, 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.
Hilton 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
Hilton'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 Hilton'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.
Hilton against the rest of the dataset
About 181 days separate Hilton's last and first frost, putting it 24,518 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 580 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14694: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hilton can differ from the 14694 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hilton's frost date answer different questions.