Atlantic Beach, NY 11691 Frost Dates
Atlantic Beach, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Atlantic Beach 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Atlantic 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 Atlantic Beach'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.
Atlantic Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Atlantic Beach places 11,218 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 118 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11691's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Atlantic Beach's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Atlantic Beach can differ from the 11691 normal.