East Nassau, NY 12062 Frost Dates
East Nassau, NY: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 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 East Nassau, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until East Nassau's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Nassau against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate East Nassau's last and first frost, putting it 28,778 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 746 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12062's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around East Nassau's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in East Nassau can differ from the 12062 normal.