West Wildwood, NJ 08242 Frost Dates
West Wildwood, NJ: when does the frost end?
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts West Wildwood in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until West Wildwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around West Wildwood'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.
West Wildwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, West Wildwood places 12,322 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 264 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08242's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in West Wildwood can differ from the 08242 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and West Wildwood's frost date answer different questions.