Barrington, NJ 08007 Frost Dates
Barrington, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Barrington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Barrington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barrington against the rest of the dataset
About 199 days separate Barrington's last and first frost, putting it 18,078 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 442 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08007's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Barrington's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Barrington's dates instead of trusting one.