Pompton Lakes, NJ 07538 Frost Dates
Pompton Lakes, NJ: when does the frost end?
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
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
About 188 days separate Pompton Lakes's last and first frost, putting it 21,917 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 672 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07538'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 07538 normal.