Freehold, NJ 07728 Frost Dates
Freehold, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Freehold sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
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.
Why 04/17 isn't a guarantee
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 21,080 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 555 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07728's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Freehold's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Freehold's dates instead of trusting one.