Roosevelt, NJ 08555 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Roosevelt, NJ, ZIP 08555
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 173 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Roosevelt in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Roosevelt has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Roosevelt's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Roosevelt compares
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Roosevelt places 28,017 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 853 of 906.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Roosevelt's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Roosevelt can differ from the 08555 normal.