Edgewater, NJ 10456 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Edgewater, NJ, ZIP 10456
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 230 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Edgewater, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Edgewater has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Edgewater compares
About 230 days separate Edgewater's last and first frost, putting it 10,335 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NJ, it ranks 187 of 906.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Edgewater's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Edgewater's dates instead of trusting one.