Falconer, NY 14733 Frost Dates
14733, near Falconer, NY: the frost window
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.
Falconer 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
Falconer'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 Falconer's last frost
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.
Falconer against the rest of the dataset
About 131 days separate Falconer's last and first frost, putting it 38,277 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,903 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14733: local microclimates, on what one yard in Falconer can differ from the 14733 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Falconer's frost date answer different questions.