West New York, NJ 10105 Frost Dates
West New York, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts West New York in Zone 7b (5 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
With roughly 12 weeks until West New York's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around West New York's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West New York against the rest of the dataset
West New York's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,287 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 80 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10105's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and West New York's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around West New York's dates instead of trusting one.