East Orange, NJ 07017 Frost Dates
07017, near East Orange, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Orange, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
East Orange'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 East Orange's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Orange against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate East Orange's last and first frost, putting it 13,706 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 280 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07017: the frost range, on how to read the range around East Orange's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in East Orange can differ from the 07017 normal.