Brightwaters, NY 11730 Frost Dates
Brightwaters, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 219 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 Brightwaters, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Brightwaters's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brightwaters against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 219 frost-free days, Brightwaters places 13,027 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 211 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11730's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Brightwaters's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Brightwaters can differ from the 11730 normal.