Branchville, NJ 07851 Frost Dates
07851, near Branchville, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 176 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
Branchville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/24 isn't a guarantee
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Branchville against the rest of the dataset
Branchville's growing season runs about 176 days, ranking 26,566 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 805 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07851: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Branchville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Branchville's dates instead of trusting one.