Lincoln Park, NJ 07082 Frost Dates
07082, near Lincoln Park, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Lincoln Park 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
Lincoln Park's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/17 isn't a guarantee
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lincoln Park against the rest of the dataset
Lincoln Park's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,469 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 615 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07082: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lincoln Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lincoln Park can differ from the 07082 normal.