Island Park, NY 11558 Frost Dates
Island Park, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 212 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 Island Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Island Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Island Park's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Island Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 212 frost-free days, Island Park places 14,597 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 275 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11558's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Island Park's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Island Park's dates instead of trusting one.