Branchville, NJ 07881 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Branchville, NJ, ZIP 07881
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 176 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Branchville has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Branchville's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Branchville compares
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Branchville places 26,568 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 807 of 906.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Branchville can differ from the 07881 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Branchville's frost date answer different questions.