Babylon, NY 11795 Frost Dates
Babylon, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Babylon 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 Babylon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Babylon's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Babylon against the rest of the dataset
About 213 days separate Babylon's last and first frost, putting it 14,470 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 252 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11795's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Babylon's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Babylon's dates instead of trusting one.