Wellsville, NY 14880 Frost Dates
14880, near Wellsville, NY: the frost window
Around 05/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 260 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 140 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wellsville in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Wellsville'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 Wellsville's last frost
05/15 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.
Wellsville against the rest of the dataset
About 140 days separate Wellsville's last and first frost, putting it 37,048 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,792 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14880: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wellsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wellsville can differ from the 14880 normal.