Deal, NJ 07723 Frost Dates
07723, near Deal, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Deal 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
Deal's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/09 isn't a guarantee
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Deal against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Deal places 15,693 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 340 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07723: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Deal's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Deal's dates instead of trusting one.