Farmingdale, NY 11714 Frost Dates
11714, near Farmingdale, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
Farmingdale 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
Farmingdale'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.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Farmingdale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Farmingdale places 14,479 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 255 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11714: local microclimates, on what one yard in Farmingdale can differ from the 11714 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Farmingdale's frost date answer different questions.