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Wrightstown, NJ 08641 Frost Dates

Wrightstown, NJ: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 196 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 9 weeks until Wrightstown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 04/15 isn't a guarantee

04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Wrightstown against the rest of the dataset

About 196 days separate Wrightstown's last and first frost, putting it 19,047 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 476 of 906.

Learn more

Before leaning on 08641'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.