Dering Harbor, NY 11965 Frost Dates
11965, near Dering Harbor, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 221 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 Dering Harbor, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dering Harbor's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dering Harbor against the rest of the dataset
About 221 days separate Dering Harbor's last and first frost, putting it 12,626 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 205 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11965: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dering Harbor's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dering Harbor can differ from the 11965 normal.