South Renovo, PA 17760 Frost Dates
17760, near South Renovo, PA: the frost window
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
South Renovo sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 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
South Renovo'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 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
South Renovo against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 177 frost-free days, South Renovo places 26,242 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 986 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17760: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and South Renovo's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around South Renovo's dates instead of trusting one.