Trumansburg, NY 14863 Frost Dates
14863, near Trumansburg, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/10, roughly 255 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Trumansburg 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
Trumansburg'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 Trumansburg's last frost
05/10 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 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Trumansburg against the rest of the dataset
About 150 days separate Trumansburg's last and first frost, putting it 35,311 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,577 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14863: local microclimates, on what one yard in Trumansburg can differ from the 14863 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Trumansburg's frost date answer different questions.