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Celoron, NY 14720 Frost Dates

Celoron, NY: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/22, about 267 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 131 days after the last spring frost.

Celoron 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

With roughly 5 weeks until Celoron'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

05/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Celoron against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 131 frost-free days, Celoron places 38,303 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,905 of 1,951.

Learn more

Before leaning on 14720's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Celoron can differ from the 14720 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Celoron's frost date answer different questions.