Freehold, NJ 07715 Frost Dates
Freehold, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Freehold, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Freehold's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Freehold's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 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.
Freehold against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Freehold places 21,079 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 554 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07715's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Freehold can differ from the 07715 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Freehold's frost date answer different questions.