Freeburg, PA 17833 Frost Dates
Freeburg, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 172 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 Freeburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Freeburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Freeburg against the rest of the dataset
Freeburg's growing season runs about 172 days, ranking 28,436 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,401 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17833's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Freeburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Freeburg can differ from the 17833 normal.