Akron, PA 17508 Frost Dates
17508, near Akron, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Akron 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
Akron'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.
Why 04/18 isn't a guarantee
04/18 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 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Akron against the rest of the dataset
Akron's growing season runs about 186 days, ranking 22,796 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 661 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17508: local microclimates, on what one yard in Akron can differ from the 17508 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Akron's frost date answer different questions.