Branchville, NJ 18324 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Branchville, NJ, ZIP 18324
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 176 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Branchville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Branchville has about 7 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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Branchville compares
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Branchville places 26,569 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 808 of 906.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Branchville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Branchville can differ from the 18324 normal.