Woodbury, NJ 08096 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Woodbury, NJ, ZIP 08096
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 224 frost-free days later.
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 Woodbury, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Woodbury has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Woodbury's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Woodbury compares
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Woodbury places 11,797 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 218 of 906.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Woodbury can differ from the 08096 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Woodbury's frost date answer different questions.