Upper Nyack, NY 10989 Frost Dates
Upper Nyack, NY: when does the frost end?
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.
Upper Nyack 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Upper Nyack's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Upper Nyack against the rest of the dataset
About 189 days separate Upper Nyack's last and first frost, putting it 21,608 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 408 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10989's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Upper Nyack's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Upper Nyack's dates instead of trusting one.