Savona, NY 14821 Frost Dates
Savona, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 144 days after the last spring frost.
Savona 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Savona's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/14 isn't a guarantee
05/14 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 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Savona against the rest of the dataset
About 144 days separate Savona's last and first frost, putting it 36,424 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,726 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14821's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Savona's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Savona can differ from the 14821 normal.