South Floral Park, NY 11003 Frost Dates
11003, near South Floral Park, NY: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
South Floral Park 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
South Floral Park's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
South Floral Park against the rest of the dataset
About 224 days separate South Floral Park's last and first frost, putting it 11,908 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 181 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11003: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and South Floral Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around South Floral Park's dates instead of trusting one.