Westbury, NY 11002 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Westbury, NY, ZIP 11002
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 224 frost-free days later.
Westbury sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Westbury has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Westbury's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Westbury compares
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Westbury places 11,759 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 139 of 1,951.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Westbury can differ from the 11002 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Westbury's frost date answer different questions.