Dundee, NY 14893 Frost Dates
14893, near Dundee, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Dundee sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Dundee's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Dundee's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dundee against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Dundee's last and first frost, putting it 27,955 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 669 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14893: local microclimates, on what one yard in Dundee can differ from the 14893 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Dundee's frost date answer different questions.