Dryden, NY 14881 Frost Dates
Dryden, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/11, roughly 256 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 145 days after the last spring frost.
Dryden sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
With roughly 5 weeks until Dryden's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Dryden's last frost
05/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 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.
Dryden against the rest of the dataset
About 145 days separate Dryden's last and first frost, putting it 36,216 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,667 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14881's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Dryden's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Dryden can differ from the 14881 normal.