Brightwaters, NY 11751 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Brightwaters, NY, ZIP 11751
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/11, about 219 frost-free days later.
Brightwaters 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Brightwaters 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Brightwaters compares
About 219 days separate Brightwaters's last and first frost, putting it 13,028 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 212 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Brightwaters's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Brightwaters can differ from the 11751 normal.