East Orange, NJ 07107 Frost Dates
East Orange, NJ: when does the frost end?
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
With roughly 10 weeks until East Orange's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
About 216 days separate East Orange's last and first frost, putting it 13,711 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 285 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07107's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in East Orange can differ from the 07107 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and East Orange's frost date answer different questions.