Fawn Grove, PA 17302 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Fawn Grove, PA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/06, about 217 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Fawn Grove, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Fawn Grove before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Fawn Grove's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fawn Grove compares
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Fawn Grove places 13,601 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 54 of 2,088.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Fawn Grove can differ from the 17302 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Fawn Grove's frost date answer different questions.