Beavertown, PA 17813 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Beavertown, PA, ZIP 17813
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 175 frost-free days later.
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 Beavertown, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Beavertown has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Beavertown compares
About 175 days separate Beavertown's last and first frost, putting it 27,085 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,216 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Beavertown's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Beavertown's dates instead of trusting one.