Angelica, NY 14744 Frost Dates
14744, near Angelica, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/14, roughly 259 days out. 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 Angelica, not a forecast for this year.
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
05/14 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.
Angelica against the rest of the dataset
About 144 days separate Angelica's last and first frost, putting it 36,421 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,725 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14744: local microclimates, on what one yard in Angelica can differ from the 14744 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Angelica's frost date answer different questions.