Bloomfield, PA 17090 Frost Dates
Bloomfield, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bloomfield in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Bloomfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bloomfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Bloomfield places 16,352 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 175 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17090's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bloomfield can differ from the 17090 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bloomfield's frost date answer different questions.