Lakehurst, NJ 08754 Frost Dates
08754, near Lakehurst, NJ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lakehurst in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lakehurst'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/23 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.
Lakehurst against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Lakehurst's last and first frost, putting it 25,322 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 769 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08754: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lakehurst's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lakehurst can differ from the 08754 normal.