Wood-Ridge, NJ 07072 Frost Dates
07072, near Wood-Ridge, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Wood-Ridge 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
Wood-Ridge'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.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
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.
Wood-Ridge against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate Wood-Ridge's last and first frost, putting it 13,753 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 293 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07072: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Wood-Ridge's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wood-Ridge's dates instead of trusting one.