Lake Grove, NY 11755 Frost Dates
11755, near Lake Grove, 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 Lake Grove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lake Grove'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 Lake Grove'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.
Lake Grove against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 207 frost-free days, Lake Grove places 15,803 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 282 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11755: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Lake Grove's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake Grove's dates instead of trusting one.