Bellport, NY 11967 Frost Dates
Bellport, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Bellport 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 9 weeks until Bellport's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bellport's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bellport against the rest of the dataset
Bellport's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 19,942 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 357 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11967's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bellport can differ from the 11967 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bellport's frost date answer different questions.