Pelham Manor, NY 10461 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pelham Manor, NY, ZIP 10461
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 230 frost-free days later.
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 Pelham Manor, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Pelham Manor has about 11 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 Pelham Manor's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pelham Manor compares
Pelham Manor's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,375 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 62 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Pelham Manor's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pelham Manor's dates instead of trusting one.