Girardville, PA 17935 Frost Dates
Girardville, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Girardville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Girardville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Girardville's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Girardville against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Girardville's last and first frost, putting it 27,051 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,204 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17935's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Girardville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Girardville's dates instead of trusting one.