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Montebello, NY 10901 Frost Dates

Montebello, NY: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Montebello in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Montebello's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Montebello's last frost

04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Montebello against the rest of the dataset

Montebello's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,011 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 427 of 1,951.

Learn more

Before leaning on 10901's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Montebello can differ from the 10901 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Montebello's frost date answer different questions.