Pelham Manor, NY 10473 Frost Dates
10473, 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.
Pelham Manor 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
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
Pelham Manor's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,380 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 67 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10473: 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.