Odessa, NY 14824 Frost Dates
Odessa, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/09, roughly 254 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Odessa in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Odessa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Odessa's last frost
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Odessa against the rest of the dataset
About 151 days separate Odessa's last and first frost, putting it 35,129 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,551 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14824's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Odessa can differ from the 14824 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Odessa's frost date answer different questions.