Little Ferry, NJ 07643 Frost Dates
07643, near Little Ferry, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Little Ferry in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Little Ferry's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Little Ferry against the rest of the dataset
Little Ferry's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,410 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 175 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07643: the frost range, on how to read the range around Little Ferry's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Little Ferry can differ from the 07643 normal.