East Orange, NJ 07101 Frost Dates
07101, near East Orange, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
East Orange 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
East Orange'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.
The actual range around East Orange's last frost
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.
East Orange against the rest of the dataset
East Orange's growing season runs about 216 days, ranking 13,709 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 283 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07101: 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 07101 normal.