Cassadaga, NY 14784 Frost Dates
Cassadaga, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cassadaga in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 9 weeks until Cassadaga's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Cassadaga against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate Cassadaga's last and first frost, putting it 22,544 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 450 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14784's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cassadaga's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cassadaga can differ from the 14784 normal.