Salladasburg, PA 17739 Frost Dates
17739, near Salladasburg, PA: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. 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 Salladasburg 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
Salladasburg'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 Salladasburg'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.
Salladasburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Salladasburg places 25,054 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 859 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17739: the frost range, on how to read the range around Salladasburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Salladasburg can differ from the 17739 normal.