Roseland, NJ 07058 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Roseland, NJ, ZIP 07058
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 189 frost-free days later.
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 Roseland, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Roseland has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Roseland's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Roseland compares
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Roseland places 21,527 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 640 of 906.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Roseland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Roseland can differ from the 07058 normal.