Bradford Woods, PA 15090 Frost Dates
Bradford Woods, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bradford Woods in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 7 weeks until Bradford Woods's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/28 isn't a guarantee
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bradford Woods against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Bradford Woods places 28,394 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,388 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15090's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bradford Woods's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bradford Woods's dates instead of trusting one.