Stratford, NJ 08084 Frost Dates
Stratford, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 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 Stratford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Stratford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Stratford's last frost
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.
Stratford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Stratford places 16,230 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 370 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08084's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Stratford can differ from the 08084 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Stratford's frost date answer different questions.