Beavertown, PA 17812 Frost Dates
17812, near Beavertown, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Beavertown sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Beavertown's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Beavertown's last frost
04/25 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.
Beavertown against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Beavertown's last and first frost, putting it 27,084 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,215 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17812: local microclimates, on what one yard in Beavertown can differ from the 17812 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Beavertown's frost date answer different questions.