Bellerose, NY 11427 Frost Dates
11427, near Bellerose, NY: the frost window
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.
Bellerose 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
Bellerose'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.
The actual range around Bellerose'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.
Bellerose against the rest of the dataset
Bellerose's growing season runs about 226 days, ranking 11,235 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 125 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11427: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bellerose's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bellerose can differ from the 11427 normal.