Saddle Rock, NY 11368 Frost Dates
11368, near Saddle Rock, 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 Saddle Rock, not a forecast for this year.
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
Saddle Rock's growing season runs about 244 days, ranking 8,255 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 24 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11368: the frost range, on how to read the range around Saddle Rock's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Saddle Rock can differ from the 11368 normal.