Bellerose, NY 11432 Frost Dates
Bellerose, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bellerose in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
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.
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
About 226 days separate Bellerose's last and first frost, putting it 11,238 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 128 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11432's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bellerose can differ from the 11432 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Bellerose's frost date answer different questions.