When do leaves actually fall in Ocean County, NJ?

The short answer is late October through early December, but the useful answer is that it is not a single event. Oaks here hold their leaves long after the maples have finished, and they let go over six to eight weeks rather than in one drop. That gap between the drop and the township collection calendar is what generates most of the calls we see. Leaves come down on the tree's schedule; the truck comes on the township's. A pile made early has doubled by the time it is taken, and a pile made late sits until spring unless someone hauls it. It also decides whether one visit is enough. On a lagoon lot with little canopy, it usually is. Under continuous oak — Cedar Run, Ocean Acres, the older Waretown streets — it is not, and a single visit booked at the wrong week clears about half of what will eventually land.