National Park, NJ 08086 Frost Dates
National Park, NJ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
National Park sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until National Park'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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
National Park against the rest of the dataset
National Park's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,874 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 227 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08086's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in National Park can differ from the 08086 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and National Park's frost date answer different questions.