Cuba, NY 14727 Frost Dates
14727, near Cuba, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 144 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Cuba, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cuba's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/14 isn't a guarantee
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cuba against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 144 frost-free days, Cuba places 36,392 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,717 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14727: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Cuba's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cuba's dates instead of trusting one.