Buena, NJ 08350 Frost Dates
08350, near Buena, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. 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 Buena, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Buena'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.
The actual range around Buena's last frost
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.
Buena against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Buena's last and first frost, putting it 24,857 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 742 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08350: the frost range, on how to read the range around Buena's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Buena can differ from the 08350 normal.