West New York, NJ 10172 Frost Dates
10172, near West New York, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West New York's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 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
At roughly 236 frost-free days, West New York places 9,299 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 92 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10172: the frost range, on how to read the range around West New York's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in West New York can differ from the 10172 normal.