Wharton, NJ 07885 Frost Dates
07885, near Wharton, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 189 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 Wharton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wharton's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wharton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Wharton places 21,495 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 630 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07885: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wharton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wharton can differ from the 07885 normal.