Hempstead, NY 11553 Frost Dates
Hempstead, 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 11/12, roughly 224 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 Hempstead, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Hempstead's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hempstead's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hempstead against the rest of the dataset
Hempstead's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,728 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 133 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11553's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hempstead's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hempstead can differ from the 11553 normal.