Oceanville, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Oceanville, 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 Oceanville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Oceanville — the short answer
Oceanville, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Oceanville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Oceanville's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Oceanville
Each reading below is measured for Oceanville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOceanville runs about 233 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
MeasuredOceanville 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 Oceanville is in
Oceanville sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Oceanville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Atlantic County.
What Grows in Oceanville
Every plant below cleared Oceanville's own zone 7b and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Oceanville?
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 Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Oceanville
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Oceanville, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Oceanville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Oceanville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STOCKTON UNIVERSITY MAIN CAMPUSPFAS · 0 ft
- SEAVIEW COUNTRY CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- VILLAGE CLEANERSSBrownfields · 2500 ft
- 011269-- Suscp08Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- SPIRIT GAS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- GALLOWAY SP BARRACKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #1033Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- NJ AMERICAN WATER CO SMITHVILLE TANKBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- BRIGANTINE DIVISION FORSYTHE NWRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- BUREAU OF MARINE WATER MONITORINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- OCEANVILLE PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- GERMANIA PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Oceanville'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 Oceanville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Oceanville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Oceanville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Oceanville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Oceanville — Superfund (16 sites) and PFAS (8 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Oceanville
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 Oceanville average
Your land is one point inside Oceanville
Everything above resolves to Oceanville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Oceanville Average
Oceanville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Oceanville
- ●One soil character for all of Oceanville
- ●Frost dates read at Oceanville's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Oceanville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Oceanville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Oceanville, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Oceanville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Oceanville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Oceanville average
How we know this about Oceanville
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 Oceanville’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 Oceanville
When does frost risk typically end in Oceanville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Oceanville typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Oceanville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Oceanville typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Oceanville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Oceanville sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Nov 3, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Oceanville?
The federal record around Oceanville runs heavier than most — 868 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (534), 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 Oceanville?
From about Oct 18 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Oceanville's scale — its 7b band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Oceanville'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 Oceanville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Oceanville's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,008 acres it covers and 868 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Oceanville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Oceanville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 17 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 868 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Oceanville, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Oceanville's boundary and the 1,008 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Oceanville's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Oceanvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Oceanville's 1,008 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Atlantic County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Atlantic 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 Atlantic County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Oceanville's 1,008 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Oceanville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,008 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 Oceanville-wide figureread your own land →
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