McEwensville, PA 17749 Frost Dates
McEwensville, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts McEwensville 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 McEwensville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 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.
McEwensville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 176 frost-free days, McEwensville places 26,632 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,094 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17749's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around McEwensville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in McEwensville can differ from the 17749 normal.