Cattaraugus, NY 14719 Frost Dates
14719, near Cattaraugus, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/17, roughly 262 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 136 days after the last spring frost.
Cattaraugus sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Cattaraugus's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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 Cattaraugus's last frost
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cattaraugus against the rest of the dataset
About 136 days separate Cattaraugus's last and first frost, putting it 37,726 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,829 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14719: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Cattaraugus's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cattaraugus's dates instead of trusting one.