North Arlington, 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.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in North Arlington, 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 North Arlington 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 North Arlington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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North Arlington — the short answer
North Arlington, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 248 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~248
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 North Arlington's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against North Arlington's 248-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in North Arlington
Each reading below is measured for North Arlington itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNorth Arlington runs about 248 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
MeasuredNorth Arlington 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 North Arlington is in
North Arlington sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at North Arlington's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bergen County.
What Grows in North Arlington
Every plant below cleared North Arlington's own zone 7b and its 248-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in North Arlington?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around North Arlington
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from North Arlington, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near North Arlington
Closest first, within ~10 miles of North Arlington. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PVWC-NORTH ARLINGTONPFAS · 25 ft
- 170 SCHUYLER AVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- BOROUGH HALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- RIDGE LUMBERCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- DELTAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- NATIONSRENT INCBrownfields · 2400 ft
- HOLY CROSS CEMETERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- PAT & MIKES TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- WRAG-TIME TRANSPORTATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- LUKOIL 57293Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- EXPERT SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- NEW JERSEY TOWING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from North Arlington'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 North Arlington.
Total Sites
12,742
within ~10 miles of North Arlington
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
226 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of North Arlington
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of North Arlington
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around North Arlington, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 226 sites within ~10 miles of North Arlington. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in North Arlington
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 North Arlington average
Your land is one point inside North Arlington
Everything above resolves to North Arlington as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 North Arlington Average
North Arlington Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across North Arlington
- ●One soil character for all of North Arlington
- ●Frost dates read at North Arlington's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not North Arlington's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in North Arlington
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in North Arlington, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that North Arlington averages can't show:
We read public map data around North Arlington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the North Arlington average
How we know this about North Arlington
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 North Arlington’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 North Arlington
When does frost risk typically end in North Arlington?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in North Arlington typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in North Arlington?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in North Arlington typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 248 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in North Arlington?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, North Arlington sees about 248 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 12, about 213 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in North Arlington?
The federal record around North Arlington runs heavier than most — 12,742 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7,642), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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 North Arlington?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at North Arlington's scale — its 7b band and its 248-day season. Your yard writes its own version of North Arlington'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 North Arlington’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at North Arlington's own scale — its own ~248-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,590 acres it covers and 12,742 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- North Arlington's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- North Arlington's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 26 and the ~248-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 12,742 documented contamination sites on the federal record near North Arlington, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- North Arlington's boundary and the 1,590 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~248-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at North Arlington's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of North Arlingtonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so North Arlington's 1,590 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bergen County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bergen 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 Bergen County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among North Arlington's 1,590 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of North Arlington you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,590 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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 North Arlington-wide figureread your own land →