Pompton Lakes, NJ 07509 Frost Dates
Pompton Lakes, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Pompton Lakes 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 8 weeks until Pompton Lakes's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Pompton Lakes places 21,913 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 668 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07509's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pompton Lakes's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pompton Lakes can differ from the 07509 normal.