Garfield, NJ 07026 Frost Dates
Garfield, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Garfield sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Garfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Garfield's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Garfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Garfield places 19,191 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 493 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07026's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Garfield can differ from the 07026 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Garfield's frost date answer different questions.