Chesilhurst, NJ 08089 Frost Dates
08089, near Chesilhurst, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Chesilhurst sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Chesilhurst'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.
The actual range around Chesilhurst's last frost
04/14 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 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chesilhurst against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Chesilhurst places 19,016 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 465 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08089: local microclimates, on what one yard in Chesilhurst can differ from the 08089 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Chesilhurst's frost date answer different questions.