Arendtsville, PA 17353 Frost Dates
17353, near Arendtsville, 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 Arendtsville 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
Arendtsville'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 Arendtsville'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.
Arendtsville against the rest of the dataset
About 194 days separate Arendtsville's last and first frost, putting it 19,544 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 392 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17353: local microclimates, on what one yard in Arendtsville can differ from the 17353 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Arendtsville's frost date answer different questions.