Bendersville, PA 17304 Frost Dates
17304, near Bendersville, PA: the frost window
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bendersville 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
Bendersville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bendersville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Bendersville places 19,550 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 393 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17304: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bendersville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bendersville's dates instead of trusting one.