Highland Falls, NY 10922 Frost Dates
10922, near Highland Falls, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Highland Falls sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Highland Falls'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.
The actual range around Highland Falls's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Highland Falls against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Highland Falls's last and first frost, putting it 16,597 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 301 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10922: local microclimates, on what one yard in Highland Falls can differ from the 10922 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Highland Falls's frost date answer different questions.