Branchville, NJ 07822 Frost Dates
Branchville, NJ: when does the frost end?
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Branchville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Branchville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Branchville's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Branchville against the rest of the dataset
Branchville's growing season runs about 164 days, ranking 31,072 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 901 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07822's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Branchville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Branchville can differ from the 07822 normal.