East Orange, NJ 07079 Frost Dates
07079, near East Orange, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
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 East Orange, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
East Orange's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/18 isn't a guarantee
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Orange against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 189 frost-free days, East Orange places 21,395 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 595 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07079: the frost range, on how to read the range around East Orange's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in East Orange can differ from the 07079 normal.