Wharton, NJ 07847 Frost Dates
Wharton, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Wharton 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 7 weeks until Wharton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/25 isn't a guarantee
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wharton against the rest of the dataset
Wharton's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 26,851 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 816 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 07847'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.