Bendersville, PA 17306 Frost Dates
Bendersville, PA: when does the frost end?
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
With roughly 9 weeks until Bendersville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bendersville's last frost
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 19,551 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 394 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17306's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bendersville can differ from the 17306 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bendersville's frost date answer different questions.