Malverne, NY 11565 Frost Dates
11565, near Malverne, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.
Malverne sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Malverne's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Malverne'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.
Malverne against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 212 frost-free days, Malverne places 14,591 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 274 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11565: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Malverne's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Malverne's dates instead of trusting one.