Fawn Grove, PA 17352 Frost Dates
17352, near Fawn Grove, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Fawn Grove 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
Fawn Grove's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Fawn Grove's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fawn Grove against the rest of the dataset
Fawn Grove's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,165 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 600 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17352: the frost range, on how to read the range around Fawn Grove's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Fawn Grove can differ from the 17352 normal.