Farmingdale, NY 11804 Frost Dates
11804, near Farmingdale, NY: the frost window
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.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Farmingdale, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Farmingdale's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Farmingdale against the rest of the dataset
About 213 days separate Farmingdale's last and first frost, putting it 14,484 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 260 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11804: local microclimates, on what one yard in Farmingdale can differ from the 11804 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Farmingdale's frost date answer different questions.