Cedarhurst, NY 11599 Frost Dates
Cedarhurst, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 226 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 Cedarhurst, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Cedarhurst's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cedarhurst's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cedarhurst against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate Cedarhurst's last and first frost, putting it 11,184 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 115 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11599's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cedarhurst can differ from the 11599 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Cedarhurst's frost date answer different questions.