Brocton, NY 14716 Frost Dates
14716, near Brocton, NY: the frost window
Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brocton 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
Brocton's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/25 isn't a guarantee
04/25 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 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brocton against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate Brocton's last and first frost, putting it 22,481 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 446 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14716: the frost range, on how to read the range around Brocton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Brocton can differ from the 14716 normal.