Lodi, NJ 07644 Frost Dates
07644, near Lodi, NJ: the frost window
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.
Lodi sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Lodi's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Lodi'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.
Lodi against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Lodi places 19,199 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 500 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07644: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Lodi's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lodi's dates instead of trusting one.