Naples, NY 14873 Frost Dates
14873, near Naples, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/12, roughly 257 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 144 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 Naples, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Naples'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 05/12 isn't a guarantee
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Naples against the rest of the dataset
About 144 days separate Naples's last and first frost, putting it 36,408 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,720 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14873: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Naples's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Naples's dates instead of trusting one.