Woodbury Heights, NJ 08097 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Woodbury Heights, NJ, ZIP 08097
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. 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 Heights, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Woodbury Heights 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.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
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 Heights compares
About 224 days separate Woodbury Heights's last and first frost, putting it 11,871 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 225 of 906.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Woodbury Heights's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Woodbury Heights's dates instead of trusting one.