Stone Harbor, NJ 08250 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 7a (0 to 5°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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
Stone Harbor's growing season runs about 222 days, ranking 12,311 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 263 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08250's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Stone Harbor's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Stone Harbor can differ from the 08250 normal.