Forksville, PA 17768 Frost Dates
Forksville, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Forksville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Forksville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Forksville'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.
Forksville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Forksville places 34,467 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,917 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17768's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Forksville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Forksville's dates instead of trusting one.