Bellerose, NY 11429 Frost Dates
Bellerose, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 226 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 Bellerose, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Bellerose's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Bellerose against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Bellerose places 11,237 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 127 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11429's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bellerose's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bellerose can differ from the 11429 normal.