Paxtang, PA 17104 Frost Dates
Paxtang, 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.
Paxtang 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Paxtang's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Paxtang's last frost
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.
Paxtang against the rest of the dataset
About 205 days separate Paxtang's last and first frost, putting it 16,341 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 169 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17104's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Paxtang's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Paxtang's dates instead of trusting one.