Stone Harbor, NJ 08210 Frost Dates
Stone Harbor, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Stone Harbor 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 10 weeks until Stone Harbor's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Stone Harbor's last frost
04/01 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 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stone Harbor against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Stone Harbor places 12,306 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 258 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08210's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Stone Harbor's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Stone Harbor's dates instead of trusting one.