New York, NY 11417 Frost Dates
New York, NY: when does the frost end?
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
With roughly 11 weeks until New York's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around New York's last frost
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
New York's growing season runs about 226 days, ranking 11,110 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 92 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11417's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in New York can differ from the 11417 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and New York's frost date answer different questions.