Sagaponack, NY 11976 Frost Dates
11976, near Sagaponack, NY: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 182 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 Sagaponack, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Sagaponack's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Sagaponack's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sagaponack against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Sagaponack's last and first frost, putting it 24,250 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 540 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 11976: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sagaponack can differ from the 11976 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Sagaponack's frost date answer different questions.