Bound Brook, NJ 08836 Frost Dates
Bound Brook, NJ: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bound Brook 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Bound Brook's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bound Brook's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bound Brook against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Bound Brook places 28,219 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 867 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 08836's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bound Brook's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bound Brook's dates instead of trusting one.