Fort Lee, NJ 10033 Frost Dates
10033, near Fort Lee, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Fort Lee sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Fort Lee's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/01 isn't a guarantee
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Lee against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Fort Lee places 10,312 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 182 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 10033: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Fort Lee's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fort Lee's dates instead of trusting one.