Atlantic Beach, NY 11692 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Atlantic Beach, NY, ZIP 11692
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/14, about 226 frost-free days later.
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 Atlantic Beach, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Atlantic Beach has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Atlantic Beach's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Atlantic Beach compares
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Atlantic Beach places 11,219 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 119 of 1,951.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Atlantic Beach's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Atlantic Beach's dates instead of trusting one.