Westville, NJ 08093 Frost Dates
08093, near Westville, NJ: the frost window
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.
Westville 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
Westville's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
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.
Westville against the rest of the dataset
Westville's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,863 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 224 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08093: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Westville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Westville's dates instead of trusting one.