Wrightstown, NJ 08533 Frost Dates
Wrightstown, 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.
Wrightstown 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 Wrightstown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wrightstown'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.
Wrightstown against the rest of the dataset
Wrightstown's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 28,026 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NJ, it ranks 859 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08533's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Wrightstown's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wrightstown's dates instead of trusting one.