Lake Grove, NY 11784 Frost Dates
Lake Grove, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Grove 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Lake Grove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lake Grove's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Grove against the rest of the dataset
Lake Grove's growing season runs about 215 days, ranking 14,056 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 213 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11784's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Lake Grove's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Grove's dates instead of trusting one.