Freeburg, PA 17853 Frost Dates
17853, near Freeburg, PA: the frost window
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
Freeburg'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.
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 28,437 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,402 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17853: local microclimates, on what one yard in Freeburg can differ from the 17853 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Freeburg's frost date answer different questions.