Harvey Cedars, NJ 08005 Frost Dates
Harvey Cedars, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Harvey Cedars, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Harvey Cedars's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/01 isn't a guarantee
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Harvey Cedars against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Harvey Cedars's last and first frost, putting it 10,471 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 205 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08005's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Harvey Cedars's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Harvey Cedars's dates instead of trusting one.