Painted Post, NY 14870 Frost Dates
14870, near Painted Post, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/17, roughly 262 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 139 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Painted Post 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
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.
The actual range around Painted Post's last frost
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 37,238 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,803 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14870: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Painted Post's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Painted Post's dates instead of trusting one.