Franklintown, PA 17019 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Franklintown, PA, ZIP 17019
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 205 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Franklintown in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Franklintown 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.
The actual range around Franklintown's last frost
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 Franklintown compares
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Franklintown places 16,384 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 183 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Franklintown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Franklintown can differ from the 17019 normal.