New York, NY 11352 Frost Dates
11352, near New York, 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 11/14, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
New York 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 York'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 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New York against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, New York places 11,103 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 85 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11352: local microclimates, on what one yard in New York can differ from the 11352 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and New York's frost date answer different questions.