Painted Post, NY 14827 Frost Dates
14827, near Painted Post, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/17, about 262 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 139 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Painted Post, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Painted Post's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/17 isn't a guarantee
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Painted Post against the rest of the dataset
Painted Post's growing season runs about 139 days, ranking 37,237 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,802 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14827: local microclimates, on what one yard in Painted Post can differ from the 14827 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Painted Post's frost date answer different questions.