Long Beach, NY 11561 Frost Dates
Long Beach, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. 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 Long Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Long Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Long Beach'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.
Long Beach against the rest of the dataset
Long Beach's growing season runs about 212 days, ranking 14,569 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 269 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11561's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Long Beach can differ from the 11561 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Long Beach's frost date answer different questions.