Peekskill, NY 10537 Frost Dates
10537, near Peekskill, NY: the frost window
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 6b (-5 to 0°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
Peekskill's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
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
About 172 days separate Peekskill's last and first frost, putting it 28,174 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 690 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10537: the frost range, on how to read the range around Peekskill's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Peekskill can differ from the 10537 normal.