Salamanca, NY 14783 Frost Dates
14783, near Salamanca, NY: the frost window
Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Salamanca'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
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Salamanca against the rest of the dataset
Salamanca's growing season runs about 150 days, ranking 35,272 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,571 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14783: local microclimates, on what one yard in Salamanca can differ from the 14783 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Salamanca's frost date answer different questions.