New Hyde Park, NY 11040 Frost Dates
11040, near New Hyde Park, NY: the frost window
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.
New Hyde 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
New Hyde 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.
New Hyde Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, New Hyde Park places 11,796 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 162 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11040: the frost range, on how to read the range around New Hyde Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in New Hyde Park can differ from the 11040 normal.