Millerstown, PA 17062 Frost Dates
Millerstown, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Millerstown 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Millerstown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Millerstown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Millerstown places 23,262 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 725 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17062's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Millerstown can differ from the 17062 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Millerstown's frost date answer different questions.