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Woodbury, PA 16659 Frost Dates

Woodbury, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Woodbury 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 8 weeks until Woodbury's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Woodbury's last frost

04/23 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 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Woodbury against the rest of the dataset

About 177 days separate Woodbury's last and first frost, putting it 26,258 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 992 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 16659's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Woodbury's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Woodbury can differ from the 16659 normal.