Bridgeton, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Bridgeton, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Bridgeton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bridgeton — the short answer
Bridgeton, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 230 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~230
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 4K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7b is Bridgeton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bridgeton's 230-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bridgeton
Each reading below is measured for Bridgeton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBridgeton runs about 230 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBridgeton sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Bridgeton is in
Bridgeton sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bridgeton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cumberland County.
What Grows in Bridgeton
Every plant below cleared Bridgeton's own zone 7b and its 230-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bridgeton?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Bridgeton
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Bridgeton, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bridgeton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bridgeton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BRIDGETON CITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- CITY HALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- FIRE DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CHARLES VEALE BUICK GMC INC (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- COASTAL MART 7212Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- GROCERY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WAWA #8442Brownfields · 1400 ft
- COASTAL MART 7213Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WILLIAMS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- MARTIN CORPToxics Release Inventory · 1600 ft
- BRIDGETON FOOD & GAS LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bridgeton's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Bridgeton.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bridgeton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bridgeton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bridgeton, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 282 sites within ~10 miles of Bridgeton. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Bridgeton
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bridgeton average
Your land is one point inside Bridgeton
Everything above resolves to Bridgeton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Bridgeton Average
Bridgeton Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Bridgeton
- ●One soil character for all of Bridgeton
- ●Frost dates read at Bridgeton's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bridgeton's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bridgeton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bridgeton, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bridgeton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bridgeton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bridgeton average
How we know this about Bridgeton
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Bridgeton’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Bridgeton
When does frost risk typically end in Bridgeton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bridgeton typically lands around Mar 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 20.
When is the first frost in Bridgeton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bridgeton typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 230 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bridgeton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bridgeton sees about 230 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Nov 1, about 195 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bridgeton?
The federal record around Bridgeton is a meaningful one — 591 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (282), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Bridgeton?
From about Oct 16 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bridgeton's scale — its 7b band and its 230-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bridgeton's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Bridgeton’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bridgeton's own scale — its own ~230-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,986 acres it covers and 591 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bridgeton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bridgeton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 15 and the ~230-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 591 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bridgeton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bridgeton's boundary and the 3,986 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~230-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bridgeton's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bridgetonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bridgeton's 3,986 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cumberland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cumberland County
- The growing challenges every New Jersey grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Jersey
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Cumberland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bridgeton's 3,986 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bridgeton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,986 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Bridgeton-wide figureread your own land →