Eagles Mere, PA 17731 Frost Dates
Eagles Mere, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Eagles Mere in Zone 6a (-10 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Eagles Mere's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Eagles Mere's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eagles Mere against the rest of the dataset
About 154 days separate Eagles Mere's last and first frost, putting it 34,457 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,915 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17731's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Eagles Mere can differ from the 17731 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Eagles Mere's frost date answer different questions.