Bradford, PA 14753 Frost Dates
Bradford, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/12, about 257 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Bradford sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Bradford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bradford's last frost
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bradford against the rest of the dataset
Bradford's growing season runs about 150 days, ranking 35,268 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,923 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 14753's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bradford can differ from the 14753 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Bradford's frost date answer different questions.