Peekskill, NY 10566 Frost Dates
Peekskill, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Peekskill, not a forecast for this year.
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.
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 28,176 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 692 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10566's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Peekskill's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Peekskill can differ from the 10566 normal.