McVeytown, PA 17004 Frost Dates
17004, near McVeytown, PA: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
McVeytown sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
McVeytown's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/21 isn't a guarantee
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
McVeytown against the rest of the dataset
About 185 days separate McVeytown's last and first frost, putting it 23,310 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 731 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17004: local microclimates, on what one yard in McVeytown can differ from the 17004 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and McVeytown's frost date answer different questions.