Picture Rocks, PA 17762 Frost Dates
17762, near Picture Rocks, PA: the frost window
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.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Picture Rocks, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Picture Rocks'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 04/24 isn't a guarantee
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.
Picture Rocks against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Picture Rocks places 25,007 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 858 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17762: local microclimates, on what one yard in Picture Rocks can differ from the 17762 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Picture Rocks's frost date answer different questions.