Snydertown, PA 17860 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Snydertown, PA, ZIP 17860
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 172 frost-free days later.
Snydertown 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Snydertown has about 8 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.
The actual range around Snydertown's last frost
04/27 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. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Snydertown compares
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Snydertown places 28,479 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,411 of 2,088.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Snydertown can differ from the 17860 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Snydertown's frost date answer different questions.