Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Point Pleasant Beach, 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 Point Pleasant Beach lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Point Pleasant Beach — the short answer
Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 245 days between hard freezes, across 911 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 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~245
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 911 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 Point Pleasant Beach's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Point Pleasant Beach's 245-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Point Pleasant Beach
Each reading below is measured for Point Pleasant Beach itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPoint Pleasant Beach runs about 245 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
MeasuredPoint Pleasant Beach 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 Point Pleasant Beach is in
Point Pleasant Beach sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Point Pleasant Beach's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ocean County.
What Grows in Point Pleasant Beach
Every plant below cleared Point Pleasant Beach's own zone 7b and its 245-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Point Pleasant Beach?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 23 — 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 Point Pleasant Beach
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Point Pleasant Beach, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Point Pleasant Beach
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Point Pleasant Beach. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- US POSTAL SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- US POST OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- 290522-- PW 8Nitrate · 700 ft
- 290521-- 9/12(New)Nitrate · 700 ft
- POINT PLEASANT BCH BOROUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- SEACOAST OIL CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- POINT PLEASANT BEACH PUBLIC WORKS DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ANTRIM ELEMENTARYBrownfields · 1100 ft
- POINT PLEASANT BEACH TERMINALUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- DSM REALTY CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- US PETROLEUM 96 INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- PT PLEASANT FOODTOWNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Point Pleasant Beach'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 Point Pleasant Beach.
Total Sites
1,441
within ~10 miles of Point Pleasant Beach
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
24 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Point Pleasant Beach
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Point Pleasant Beach
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Point Pleasant Beach, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Point Pleasant Beach — Superfund (24 sites) and PFAS (14 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Point Pleasant Beach
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 Point Pleasant Beach average
Your land is one point inside Point Pleasant Beach
Everything above resolves to Point Pleasant Beach as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 911 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 Point Pleasant Beach Average
Point Pleasant Beach Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Point Pleasant Beach
- ●One soil character for all of Point Pleasant Beach
- ●Frost dates read at Point Pleasant Beach's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Point Pleasant Beach's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Point Pleasant Beach
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Point Pleasant Beach averages can't show:
We read public map data around Point Pleasant Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Point Pleasant Beach average
How we know this about Point Pleasant Beach
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 Point Pleasant Beach’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 Point Pleasant Beach
When does frost risk typically end in Point Pleasant Beach?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Point Pleasant Beach 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 Point Pleasant Beach?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Point Pleasant Beach typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 245 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Point Pleasant Beach?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Point Pleasant Beach sees about 245 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 9, about 210 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Point Pleasant Beach?
The federal record around Point Pleasant Beach runs heavier than most — 1,441 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (909), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Point Pleasant Beach?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Point Pleasant Beach's scale — its 7b band and its 245-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Point Pleasant Beach'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 Point Pleasant Beach’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Point Pleasant Beach's own scale — its own ~245-day season between 28°F freezes, the 911 acres it covers and 1,441 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Point Pleasant Beach's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Point Pleasant Beach's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 23 and the ~245-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,441 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Point Pleasant Beach, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Point Pleasant Beach's boundary and the 911 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~245-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Point Pleasant Beach's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Point Pleasant Beachlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Point Pleasant Beach's 911 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ocean County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ocean 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 Ocean County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Point Pleasant Beach's 911 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Point Pleasant Beach you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 911 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Point Pleasant Beach-wide figureread your own land →
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