New York, NY 11381 Frost Dates
11381, near New York, NY: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. 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 11,105 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 87 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11381: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and New York's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around New York's dates instead of trusting one.