Westfield, NY 14787 Frost Dates
14787, near Westfield, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Westfield sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Westfield's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/21 isn't a guarantee
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Westfield against the rest of the dataset
Westfield's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,687 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 336 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14787: the frost range, on how to read the range around Westfield's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Westfield can differ from the 14787 normal.