Patchogue, NY 11741 Frost Dates
11741, near Patchogue, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 207 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 Patchogue, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Patchogue's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Patchogue's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Patchogue against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 207 frost-free days, Patchogue places 15,798 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 277 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11741: the frost range, on how to read the range around Patchogue's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Patchogue can differ from the 11741 normal.