Brewster, NY 10540 Frost Dates
Brewster, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Brewster sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Brewster'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.
Brewster against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Brewster's last and first frost, putting it 28,321 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 709 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10540's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Brewster's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Brewster's dates instead of trusting one.