Cattaraugus, NY 14766 Frost Dates
Cattaraugus, 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.
Cattaraugus sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 5 weeks until Cattaraugus's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cattaraugus'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.
Cattaraugus against the rest of the dataset
Cattaraugus's growing season runs about 136 days, ranking 37,727 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,830 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14766's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cattaraugus can differ from the 14766 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Cattaraugus's frost date answer different questions.