Midland Park, NJ 07432 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Midland Park, NJ, ZIP 07432
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 195 frost-free days later.
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 Midland Park, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Midland Park has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Midland Park compares
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Midland Park places 19,241 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 515 of 906.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Midland Park can differ from the 07432 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Midland Park's frost date answer different questions.