Beverly, NJ 19020 Frost Dates
19020, near Beverly, NJ: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Beverly 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
Beverly's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Beverly's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beverly against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Beverly places 13,803 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 302 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19020: the frost range, on how to read the range around Beverly's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Beverly can differ from the 19020 normal.