White Plains, NY 10604 Frost Dates
10604, near White Plains, NY: the frost window
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.
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 White Plains, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
White Plains'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
White Plains against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 200 frost-free days, White Plains places 17,711 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 314 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10604: the frost range, on how to read the range around White Plains's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in White Plains can differ from the 10604 normal.