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Quogue, NY 11942 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Quogue, NY, ZIP 11942

Zone 7a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/07, roughly 252 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 160 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Quogue in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 7a around Quogue has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Quogue's last frost

05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Quogue compares

At roughly 160 frost-free days, Quogue places 32,394 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 1,113 of 1,951.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Quogue's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Quogue can differ from the 11942 normal.