North East, PA 14736 Frost Dates
North East, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North East 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 10 weeks until North East's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around North East's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North East against the rest of the dataset
North East's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,676 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 364 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14736's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around North East's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in North East can differ from the 14736 normal.