Little Valley, NY 14755 Frost Dates
Little Valley, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 262 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 136 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Little Valley 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Little Valley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Little Valley's last frost
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Little Valley against the rest of the dataset
About 136 days separate Little Valley's last and first frost, putting it 37,720 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,827 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14755's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Little Valley's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Little Valley can differ from the 14755 normal.