Glen Ridge, NJ 07198 Frost Dates
07198, near Glen Ridge, 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 10/24, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Glen Ridge 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
Glen Ridge'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Glen Ridge against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate Glen Ridge's last and first frost, putting it 22,336 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 707 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07198: the frost range, on how to read the range around Glen Ridge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Glen Ridge can differ from the 07198 normal.