Gibbsboro, NJ 08026 Frost Dates
08026, near Gibbsboro, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Gibbsboro sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Gibbsboro'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 Gibbsboro's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gibbsboro against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Gibbsboro's last and first frost, putting it 17,802 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 426 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08026: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Gibbsboro's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Gibbsboro's dates instead of trusting one.