Patchogue, NY 11796 Frost Dates
11796, near Patchogue, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
Patchogue 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Patchogue'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 Patchogue's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Patchogue against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 219 frost-free days, Patchogue places 12,986 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 209 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11796: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Patchogue's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Patchogue's dates instead of trusting one.