Maywood, NJ 07662 Frost Dates
07662, near Maywood, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Maywood 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
Maywood'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Maywood against the rest of the dataset
About 195 days separate Maywood's last and first frost, putting it 19,234 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 512 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07662: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Maywood's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Maywood's dates instead of trusting one.