Great Bend, PA 13795 Frost Dates
Great Bend, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Great Bend in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Great Bend's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Great Bend's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Great Bend against the rest of the dataset
Great Bend's growing season runs about 162 days, ranking 31,830 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,666 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 13795's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Great Bend can differ from the 13795 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Great Bend's frost date answer different questions.