Branchville, NJ 07826 Frost Dates
Branchville, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Branchville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 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
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Branchville places 31,073 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 902 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07826's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Branchville can differ from the 07826 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Branchville's frost date answer different questions.