Watsontown, PA 17730 Frost Dates
Watsontown, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Watsontown in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 8 weeks until Watsontown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Watsontown's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Watsontown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Watsontown places 24,886 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 851 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17730's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Watsontown can differ from the 17730 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Watsontown's frost date answer different questions.