Lincoln Park, NJ 07440 Frost Dates
Lincoln Park, NJ: when does the frost end?
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 196 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Lincoln Park'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
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lincoln Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Lincoln Park places 18,933 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 454 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07440's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lincoln Park's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lincoln Park can differ from the 07440 normal.