Burlington, NJ 08036 Frost Dates
08036, near Burlington, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Burlington in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Burlington'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.
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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burlington against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Burlington's last and first frost, putting it 18,936 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 456 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08036: the frost range, on how to read the range around Burlington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Burlington can differ from the 08036 normal.