Homestead, PA 15217 Frost Dates
Homestead, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Homestead 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 9 weeks until Homestead's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Homestead against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Homestead's last and first frost, putting it 19,934 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 480 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15217's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Homestead can differ from the 15217 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Homestead's frost date answer different questions.