Fanwood, NJ 07062 Frost Dates
Fanwood, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Fanwood sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Fanwood'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
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fanwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Fanwood places 17,212 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 412 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07062's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fanwood's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fanwood can differ from the 07062 normal.