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Pleasantville, NY 10570 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Pleasantville, NY, ZIP 10570

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 200 frost-free days later.

Pleasantville sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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.

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

Pleasantville's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,753 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 328 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.