Wrightstown, NJ 08041 Frost Dates
08041, near Wrightstown, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. 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 Wrightstown 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
Wrightstown'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.
Wrightstown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Wrightstown places 19,042 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 471 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08041: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wrightstown can differ from the 08041 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Wrightstown's frost date answer different questions.