Quogue, NY 11969 Frost Dates
11969, near Quogue, NY: the frost window
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 215 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 Quogue, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Quogue's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Quogue's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Quogue against the rest of the dataset
Quogue's growing season runs about 215 days, ranking 14,125 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 237 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11969: the frost range, on how to read the range around Quogue's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Quogue can differ from the 11969 normal.