Cohocton, NY 14808 Frost Dates
Cohocton, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Cohocton sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 7 weeks until Cohocton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/01 isn't a guarantee
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cohocton against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Cohocton's last and first frost, putting it 29,162 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 775 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14808's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cohocton can differ from the 14808 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Cohocton's frost date answer different questions.