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Freeport, NY 11575 Frost Dates

11575, near Freeport, NY: the frost window

Zone 7b

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.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Freeport in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Freeport'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 Freeport'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.

Freeport against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 212 frost-free days, Freeport places 14,564 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 268 of 1,951.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 11575: local microclimates, on what one yard in Freeport can differ from the 11575 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Freeport's frost date answer different questions.