Quogue, NY 00501 Frost Dates
00501, near Quogue, NY: the frost window
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Quogue, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Quogue's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Quogue against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Quogue places 14,117 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 229 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 00501: local microclimates, on what one yard in Quogue can differ from the 00501 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Quogue's frost date answer different questions.