New Rochelle, NY 10801 Frost Dates
Frost dates for New Rochelle, NY, ZIP 10801
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 230 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 New Rochelle, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around New Rochelle has about 11 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How New Rochelle compares
At roughly 230 frost-free days, New Rochelle places 10,296 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 51 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and New Rochelle's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around New Rochelle's dates instead of trusting one.