Medford Lakes, NJ 08076 Frost Dates
Medford Lakes, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 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 Medford Lakes, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Medford Lakes'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
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Medford Lakes against the rest of the dataset
About 169 days separate Medford Lakes's last and first frost, putting it 29,419 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 891 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08076's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Medford Lakes's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Medford Lakes's dates instead of trusting one.