Pleasantville, NY 10602 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pleasantville, NY, ZIP 10602
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.
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 Pleasantville, not a forecast for this year.
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.
The actual range around Pleasantville's last frost
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 17,755 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 330 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.