Camp Hill, PA 17011 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Camp Hill, PA, ZIP 17011
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 205 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Camp Hill, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Camp Hill has about 9 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Camp Hill compares
Camp Hill's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,226 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 138 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Camp Hill's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Camp Hill can differ from the 17011 normal.