Westbury, NY 11027 Frost Dates
Westbury, NY: when does the frost end?
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.
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 Westbury, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Westbury's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Westbury's last frost
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.
Westbury against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Westbury places 11,762 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 142 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11027's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Westbury's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Westbury can differ from the 11027 normal.