Cleona, PA 17003 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cleona, PA, ZIP 17003
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 185 frost-free days later.
Cleona sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Cleona has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Cleona's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cleona compares
About 185 days separate Cleona's last and first frost, putting it 23,192 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 705 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Cleona's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Cleona's dates instead of trusting one.