Shade Gap, PA 17271 Frost Dates
Shade Gap, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Shade Gap 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 10 weeks until Shade Gap's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Shade Gap's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shade Gap against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate Shade Gap's last and first frost, putting it 15,449 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 101 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17271's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Shade Gap's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Shade Gap's dates instead of trusting one.