Elmsford, NY 10607 Frost Dates
Elmsford, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 189 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 Elmsford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Elmsford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Elmsford's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elmsford against the rest of the dataset
About 189 days separate Elmsford's last and first frost, putting it 21,542 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 403 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10607's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Elmsford can differ from the 10607 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Elmsford's frost date answer different questions.