Keansburg, NJ 07748 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Keansburg, NJ, ZIP 07748
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 190 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Keansburg in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Keansburg has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Keansburg's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Keansburg compares
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Keansburg places 21,103 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 566 of 906.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Keansburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Keansburg can differ from the 07748 normal.