Wharton, NJ 07803 Frost Dates
Wharton, 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 189 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wharton in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Wharton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wharton's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wharton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Wharton places 21,494 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 629 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07803's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wharton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wharton's dates instead of trusting one.