South Toms River, NJ 08757 Frost Dates
08757, near South Toms River, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for South Toms River, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
South Toms River'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.
The actual range around South Toms River's last frost
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.
South Toms River against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate South Toms River's last and first frost, putting it 25,302 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 756 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 08757: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and South Toms River's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around South Toms River's dates instead of trusting one.