Rye, NY 10580 Frost Dates
Rye, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Rye sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 9 weeks until Rye's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/12 isn't a guarantee
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rye against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Rye places 17,736 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 319 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10580's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Rye's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Rye's dates instead of trusting one.