Roosevelt, NJ 08514 Frost Dates
Roosevelt, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Roosevelt sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 7 weeks until Roosevelt's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Roosevelt's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 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.
Roosevelt against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Roosevelt's last and first frost, putting it 28,014 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 850 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08514's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Roosevelt's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Roosevelt's dates instead of trusting one.