Cedarhurst, NY 11420 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Cedarhurst, NY?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/14, about 226 frost-free days later.
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 Cedarhurst, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Cedarhurst before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Cedarhurst's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cedarhurst compares
About 226 days separate Cedarhurst's last and first frost, putting it 11,179 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 110 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and Cedarhurst's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Cedarhurst's dates instead of trusting one.