Lake Success, NY 11005 Frost Dates
11005, near Lake Success, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Success in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lake Success'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.
Lake Success against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Lake Success places 11,879 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 172 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11005: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Lake Success's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake Success's dates instead of trusting one.