Almond, NY 14804 Frost Dates
14804, near Almond, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/11, roughly 256 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Almond 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
Almond'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.
Why 05/11 isn't a guarantee
05/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Almond against the rest of the dataset
Almond's growing season runs about 150 days, ranking 35,383 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,592 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14804: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Almond's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Almond's dates instead of trusting one.