Elmsford, NY 10595 Frost Dates
10595, near Elmsford, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Elmsford 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elmsford's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Elmsford's last frost
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.
Elmsford against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Elmsford's last and first frost, putting it 17,773 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 333 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10595: local microclimates, on what one yard in Elmsford can differ from the 10595 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Elmsford's frost date answer different questions.