Norwood, NJ 07648 Frost Dates
Norwood, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Norwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Norwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Norwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Norwood places 21,531 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 643 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07648's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Norwood can differ from the 07648 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Norwood's frost date answer different questions.