Bellerose, NY 11364 Frost Dates
11364, near Bellerose, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 244 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 Bellerose, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bellerose'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Bellerose against the rest of the dataset
Bellerose's growing season runs about 244 days, ranking 8,242 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 12 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11364: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bellerose can differ from the 11364 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Bellerose's frost date answer different questions.