Saddle Rock, NY 11351 Frost Dates
11351, near Saddle Rock, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 244 days after the last spring frost.
Saddle Rock 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
Saddle Rock's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/26 isn't a guarantee
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Saddle Rock against the rest of the dataset
About 244 days separate Saddle Rock's last and first frost, putting it 8,248 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 17 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11351: local microclimates, on what one yard in Saddle Rock can differ from the 11351 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Saddle Rock's frost date answer different questions.