Spring Valley, NY 10954 Frost Dates
10954, near Spring Valley, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Spring Valley 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
Spring Valley's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
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.
Spring Valley against the rest of the dataset
Spring Valley's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,405 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 382 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10954: local microclimates, on what one yard in Spring Valley can differ from the 10954 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Spring Valley's frost date answer different questions.