Lopatcong Overlook, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lopatcong Overlook, 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 Lopatcong Overlook lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Lopatcong Overlook — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lopatcong Overlook — the short answer
Lopatcong Overlook, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 236 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 236 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 7a is Lopatcong Overlook's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lopatcong Overlook's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lopatcong Overlook
Each reading below is measured for Lopatcong Overlook itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLopatcong Overlook runs about 212 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
MeasuredLopatcong Overlook sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Lopatcong Overlook is in
Lopatcong Overlook sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lopatcong Overlook's own centroid rather than borrowed from Warren County.
What Grows in Lopatcong Overlook
Every plant below cleared Lopatcong Overlook's own zone 7a and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lopatcong Overlook?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — 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 Lopatcong Overlook
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Lopatcong Overlook, first recorded 2017. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lopatcong Overlook
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lopatcong Overlook. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KENAN ADVANTAGE GROUP INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- WICKES LUMBER COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- QUALITY OUTFITTERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- ON SITE AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- 85 RT 57Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- EAGLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 410246-- DomesticNitrate · 0.8 mi
- LOPATCONG MOBILUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- PHILLIPSBURG VEHICLE SALES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SMP INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- PHILLIPSBURG MALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SUPERIOR QUARTZ PRODUCTS INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lopatcong Overlook'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 Lopatcong Overlook.
Total Sites
937
within ~10 miles of Lopatcong Overlook
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
16 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lopatcong Overlook
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lopatcong Overlook
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lopatcong Overlook, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lopatcong Overlook — Superfund (16 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (62 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Lopatcong Overlook
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 Lopatcong Overlook average
Your land is one point inside Lopatcong Overlook
Everything above resolves to Lopatcong Overlook as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 236 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 town 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 Lopatcong Overlook Average
Lopatcong Overlook Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lopatcong Overlook
- ●One soil character for all of Lopatcong Overlook
- ●Frost dates read at Lopatcong Overlook's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lopatcong Overlook's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lopatcong Overlook
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lopatcong Overlook, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lopatcong Overlook averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lopatcong Overlook — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lopatcong Overlook average
How we know this about Lopatcong Overlook
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Lopatcong Overlook’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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Lopatcong Overlook
When does frost risk typically end in Lopatcong Overlook?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lopatcong Overlook typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Lopatcong Overlook?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lopatcong Overlook typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lopatcong Overlook?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lopatcong Overlook sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 21, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lopatcong Overlook?
The federal record around Lopatcong Overlook runs heavier than most — 937 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (532), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lopatcong Overlook?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lopatcong Overlook's scale — its 7a band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lopatcong Overlook'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 Lopatcong Overlook’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lopatcong Overlook's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 236 acres it covers and 937 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lopatcong Overlook's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lopatcong Overlook's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 4 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 937 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lopatcong Overlook, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lopatcong Overlook's boundary and the 236 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lopatcong Overlook's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lopatcong Overlooklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lopatcong Overlook's 236 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren 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 Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lopatcong Overlook's 236 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lopatcong Overlook you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 236 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Lopatcong Overlook-wide figureread your own land →