West Hampton Dunes, NY 11960 Frost Dates
11960, near West Hampton Dunes, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
West Hampton Dunes 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
West Hampton Dunes's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/07 isn't a guarantee
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Hampton Dunes against the rest of the dataset
About 160 days separate West Hampton Dunes's last and first frost, putting it 32,540 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 1,138 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11960: local microclimates, on what one yard in West Hampton Dunes can differ from the 11960 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and West Hampton Dunes's frost date answer different questions.