Bogota, NJ 07666 Frost Dates
07666, near Bogota, 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.
Bogota 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
Bogota'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.
Bogota against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Bogota's last and first frost, putting it 9,412 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 177 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07666: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bogota can differ from the 07666 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Bogota's frost date answer different questions.