Waverly, NY 14825 Frost Dates
Waverly, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 157 days after the last spring frost.
Waverly 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 6 weeks until Waverly's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Waverly's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waverly against the rest of the dataset
Waverly's growing season runs about 157 days, ranking 33,310 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,215 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14825's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Waverly's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Waverly's dates instead of trusting one.