FrostDateCheck

Edgewood, PA 15295 Frost Dates

Edgewood, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. 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 Edgewood 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 Edgewood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Edgewood's last frost

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.

Edgewood against the rest of the dataset

Edgewood's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 19,932 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 478 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 15295's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Edgewood's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Edgewood can differ from the 15295 normal.