Waverly, NY 14892 Frost Dates
14892, near Waverly, NY: the frost window
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 157 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Waverly 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
Waverly'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waverly against the rest of the dataset
About 157 days separate Waverly's last and first frost, putting it 33,312 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,217 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14892: the frost range, on how to read the range around Waverly's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Waverly can differ from the 14892 normal.