Moonachie, NJ 07074 Frost Dates
07074, near Moonachie, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Moonachie 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
Moonachie's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moonachie against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Moonachie's last and first frost, putting it 9,430 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 179 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07074: the frost range, on how to read the range around Moonachie's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Moonachie can differ from the 07074 normal.