Pompton Lakes, NJ 07442 Frost Dates
07442, near Pompton Lakes, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pompton Lakes in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pompton Lakes'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.
The actual range around Pompton Lakes's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pompton Lakes against the rest of the dataset
Pompton Lakes's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 21,910 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 665 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07442: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Pompton Lakes's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pompton Lakes's dates instead of trusting one.