Atlantic Beach, NY 11509 Frost Dates
Atlantic Beach, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. 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 Atlantic Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Atlantic Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
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.
Atlantic Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Atlantic Beach places 11,217 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 117 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11509's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Atlantic Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Atlantic Beach's dates instead of trusting one.