Wildwood, NJ 08260 Frost Dates
08260, near Wildwood, NJ: the frost window
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.
Wildwood sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Wildwood's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/01 isn't a guarantee
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.
Wildwood against the rest of the dataset
Wildwood's growing season runs about 222 days, ranking 12,253 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 255 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08260: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wildwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wildwood can differ from the 08260 normal.