Shiloh, NJ 08323 Frost Dates
Shiloh, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Shiloh 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 Shiloh's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Shiloh's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shiloh against the rest of the dataset
About 206 days separate Shiloh's last and first frost, putting it 16,100 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 356 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08323's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Shiloh can differ from the 08323 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Shiloh's frost date answer different questions.