Canisteo, NY 14823 Frost Dates
14823, near Canisteo, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Canisteo in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Canisteo'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.
The actual range around Canisteo's last frost
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.
Canisteo against the rest of the dataset
About 150 days separate Canisteo's last and first frost, putting it 35,303 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,574 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14823: local microclimates, on what one yard in Canisteo can differ from the 14823 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Canisteo's frost date answer different questions.