Millport, NY 14864 Frost Dates
14864, near Millport, NY: the frost window
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 Millport 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
Millport'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 Millport'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.
Millport against the rest of the dataset
About 151 days separate Millport's last and first frost, putting it 35,164 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,563 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14864: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Millport's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Millport's dates instead of trusting one.