Farmingdale, NY 11735 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Farmingdale, NY, ZIP 11735
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/06, about 213 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Farmingdale in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Farmingdale has about 10 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 Farmingdale's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Farmingdale compares
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Farmingdale places 14,480 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 256 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Farmingdale's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Farmingdale can differ from the 11735 normal.