Pelham Manor, NY 10464 Frost Dates
10464, near Pelham Manor, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pelham Manor 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
Pelham Manor's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pelham Manor against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Pelham Manor's last and first frost, putting it 10,377 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 64 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10464: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Pelham Manor's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pelham Manor's dates instead of trusting one.