Estell Manor, NJ 08330 Frost Dates
08330, near Estell Manor, NJ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Estell Manor, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Estell Manor's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Estell Manor against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Estell Manor's last and first frost, putting it 24,903 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 745 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08330: local microclimates, on what one yard in Estell Manor can differ from the 08330 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Estell Manor's frost date answer different questions.