Peekskill, NY 10517 Frost Dates
Peekskill, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Peekskill in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Peekskill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Peekskill against the rest of the dataset
Peekskill's growing season runs about 172 days, ranking 28,172 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 688 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10517's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Peekskill's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Peekskill's dates instead of trusting one.