Haledon, NJ 07502 Frost Dates
Haledon, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Haledon 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 Haledon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Haledon's last frost
04/15 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 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Haledon against the rest of the dataset
Haledon's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,235 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 513 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07502's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Haledon's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Haledon can differ from the 07502 normal.