Pine Hill, NJ 08081 Frost Dates
08081, near Pine Hill, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Pine Hill, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pine Hill'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
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pine Hill against the rest of the dataset
Pine Hill's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,202 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 361 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08081: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pine Hill's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pine Hill can differ from the 08081 normal.