Newfield, NJ 08344 Frost Dates
08344, near Newfield, NJ: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newfield in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Newfield'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.
The actual range around Newfield'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.
Newfield against the rest of the dataset
Newfield's growing season runs about 206 days, ranking 16,041 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 352 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08344: local microclimates, on what one yard in Newfield can differ from the 08344 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Newfield's frost date answer different questions.