New Providence, NJ 07974 Frost Dates
07974, near New Providence, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
New Providence sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
New Providence's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around New Providence's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Providence against the rest of the dataset
New Providence's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,453 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 613 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 07974: the frost range, on how to read the range around New Providence's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in New Providence can differ from the 07974 normal.