Edgewater, NJ 10035 Frost Dates
Edgewater, NJ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Edgewater in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 12 weeks until Edgewater's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Edgewater's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edgewater against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Edgewater's last and first frost, putting it 9,342 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 110 of 906.
Learn more
Before leaning on 10035's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Edgewater's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Edgewater can differ from the 10035 normal.