Brocton, NY 14758 Frost Dates
Brocton, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Brocton sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Brocton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/25 isn't a guarantee
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brocton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Brocton places 22,482 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 447 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14758's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Brocton can differ from the 14758 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Brocton's frost date answer different questions.