Pompton Lakes, NJ 07015 Frost Dates
07015, near Pompton Lakes, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pompton Lakes 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
Pompton Lakes'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pompton Lakes against the rest of the dataset
Pompton Lakes's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 21,909 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 664 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07015: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pompton Lakes can differ from the 07015 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Pompton Lakes's frost date answer different questions.