Angelica, NY 14735 Frost Dates
14735, near Angelica, NY: the frost window
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Angelica in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Angelica'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Angelica against the rest of the dataset
Angelica's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,757 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,338 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14735: the frost range, on how to read the range around Angelica's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Angelica can differ from the 14735 normal.