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Pleasantville, NY 10545 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Pleasantville, NY, ZIP 10545

Zone 7a

Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 200 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pleasantville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 7a around Pleasantville has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

How much risk comes with planting early here

04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Pleasantville compares

About 200 days separate Pleasantville's last and first frost, putting it 17,751 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 326 of 1,951.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pleasantville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pleasantville's dates instead of trusting one.