Floral Park, NY 11001 Frost Dates
Floral Park, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
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 Floral Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Floral Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Floral Park against the rest of the dataset
Floral Park's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,758 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 138 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11001's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Floral Park can differ from the 11001 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Floral Park's frost date answer different questions.