Woodbury Heights, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Woodbury Heights, 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 Woodbury Heights lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woodbury Heights — the short answer
Woodbury Heights, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 251 days between hard freezes, across 797 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- 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
- ~251
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 797 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 Woodbury Heights's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodbury Heights's 251-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodbury Heights
Each reading below is measured for Woodbury Heights itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodbury Heights runs about 251 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
MeasuredWoodbury Heights 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 Woodbury Heights is in
Woodbury Heights sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodbury Heights's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gloucester County.
What Grows in Woodbury Heights
Every plant below cleared Woodbury Heights's own zone 7b and its 251-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodbury Heights?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (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 Woodbury Heights
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Woodbury Heights, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodbury Heights
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodbury Heights. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WOODBURY CITY W DEPTPFAS · 25 ft
- 150016-- PW 1Nitrate · 600 ft
- BELL ATLANTIC - WOODBURY HTS GARUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- H A HOEFERS & SON INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WOODBURY HEIGHTS IMPR PROT & FIRE ASSOCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- SHELL SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- MIDDLE ATLANTIC MILLWORK COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- TOGETHER CITGO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- COTTMAN TRANSMISSIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- GEORGE LEES AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GATEWAY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- GATEWAY RGNL BD OF ED HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodbury Heights'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 Woodbury Heights.
Total Sites
3,919
within ~10 miles of Woodbury Heights
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
81 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodbury Heights
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodbury Heights
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodbury Heights, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 81 sites within ~10 miles of Woodbury Heights. 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.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Woodbury Heights
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 Woodbury Heights average
Your land is one point inside Woodbury Heights
Everything above resolves to Woodbury Heights as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 797 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 Woodbury Heights Average
Woodbury Heights Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Woodbury Heights
- ●One soil character for all of Woodbury Heights
- ●Frost dates read at Woodbury Heights's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodbury Heights's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodbury Heights
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodbury Heights averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodbury Heights — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodbury Heights average
How we know this about Woodbury Heights
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 Woodbury Heights’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 Woodbury Heights
When does frost risk typically end in Woodbury Heights?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodbury Heights typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Woodbury Heights?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodbury Heights 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 251 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodbury Heights?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodbury Heights sees about 251 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 12, about 216 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodbury Heights?
The federal record around Woodbury Heights runs heavier than most — 3,919 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,800), 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 Woodbury Heights?
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 Woodbury Heights's scale — its 7b band and its 251-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodbury Heights'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 Woodbury Heights’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodbury Heights's own scale — its own ~251-day season between 28°F freezes, the 797 acres it covers and 3,919 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodbury Heights's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodbury Heights's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 26 and the ~251-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,919 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodbury Heights, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodbury Heights's boundary and the 797 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~251-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodbury Heights's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodbury Heightslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodbury Heights's 797 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gloucester County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gloucester 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 Gloucester County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodbury Heights's 797 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodbury Heights you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 797 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 Woodbury Heights-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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