Belmont, NY 14739 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Belmont, NY, ZIP 14739
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 163 frost-free days later.
Belmont sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Belmont has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Belmont's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Belmont compares
Belmont's growing season runs about 163 days, ranking 31,486 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 984 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Belmont's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Belmont's dates instead of trusting one.