Quogue, NY 11970 Frost Dates
Quogue, NY: when does the frost end?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Quogue's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Quogue's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Quogue against the rest of the dataset
Quogue's growing season runs about 196 days, ranking 19,007 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 350 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11970's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Quogue can differ from the 11970 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Quogue's frost date answer different questions.