West New York, NJ 10171 Frost Dates
Frost dates for West New York, NJ, ZIP 10171
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 236 frost-free days later.
West New York sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around West New York has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around West New York's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How West New York compares
About 236 days separate West New York's last and first frost, putting it 9,298 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 91 of 906.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and West New York's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around West New York's dates instead of trusting one.