Shoreham, NY 11933 Frost Dates
Shoreham, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Shoreham sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 8 weeks until Shoreham's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Shoreham's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shoreham against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Shoreham's last and first frost, putting it 24,282 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 545 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11933's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Shoreham's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Shoreham can differ from the 11933 normal.