Sinclairville, NY 14740 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sinclairville, NY, ZIP 14740
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 185 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Sinclairville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Sinclairville has about 9 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sinclairville compares
About 185 days separate Sinclairville's last and first frost, putting it 23,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 459 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Sinclairville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Sinclairville's dates instead of trusting one.