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Wormleysburg, PA 17089 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Wormleysburg, PA?

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 205 frost-free days later.

Wormleysburg 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

About 9 weeks of growing season left in Wormleysburg before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Wormleysburg'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 Wormleysburg compares

At roughly 205 frost-free days, Wormleysburg places 16,307 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 162 of 2,088.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Wormleysburg's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Wormleysburg can differ from the 17089 normal.