Brewster, NY 10597 Frost Dates
Brewster, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Brewster, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Brewster's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Brewster's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brewster against the rest of the dataset
About 166 days separate Brewster's last and first frost, putting it 30,381 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 874 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10597's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Brewster's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Brewster can differ from the 10597 normal.