Massapequa Park, NY 11758 Frost Dates
11758, near Massapequa Park, NY: the frost window
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Massapequa Park in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Massapequa Park's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Massapequa Park's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Massapequa Park against the rest of the dataset
Massapequa Park's growing season runs about 221 days, ranking 12,457 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 196 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11758: the frost range, on how to read the range around Massapequa Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Massapequa Park can differ from the 11758 normal.