Beverly, NJ 19154 Frost Dates
19154, 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 13,805 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NJ, it ranks 304 of 906.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19154: local microclimates, on what one yard in Beverly can differ from the 19154 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Beverly's frost date answer different questions.