Salamanca, NY 14748 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Salamanca, NY, ZIP 14748
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/12, about 257 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/09, about 150 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Salamanca in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Salamanca has about 6 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 Salamanca's last frost
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Salamanca compares
About 150 days separate Salamanca's last and first frost, putting it 35,270 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,569 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Salamanca's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Salamanca's dates instead of trusting one.