Pompton Lakes, NJ 07543 Frost Dates
07543, near Pompton Lakes, NJ: the frost window
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
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
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Pompton Lakes places 21,918 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 673 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07543: 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.