Goldsboro, PA 17319 Frost Dates
17319, near Goldsboro, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Goldsboro 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
Goldsboro'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.
The actual range around Goldsboro's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 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.
Goldsboro against the rest of the dataset
About 206 days separate Goldsboro's last and first frost, putting it 16,067 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 109 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17319: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Goldsboro's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Goldsboro's dates instead of trusting one.