Bellerose, NY 11366 Frost Dates
Bellerose, NY: when does the frost end?
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.
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
With roughly 13 weeks until Bellerose's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bellerose's last frost
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
At roughly 244 frost-free days, Bellerose places 8,244 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 14 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11366's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bellerose can differ from the 11366 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Bellerose's frost date answer different questions.