Massapequa Park, NY 11762 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Massapequa Park, NY, ZIP 11762
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/11, about 221 frost-free days later.
Massapequa Park 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 Massapequa Park 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.
The actual range around Massapequa Park's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Massapequa Park compares
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Massapequa Park places 12,458 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 197 of 1,951.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Massapequa Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Massapequa Park can differ from the 11762 normal.