Girardville, PA 17946 Frost Dates
17946, near Girardville, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Girardville 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Girardville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
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 27,052 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,205 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17946: local microclimates, on what one yard in Girardville can differ from the 17946 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Girardville's frost date answer different questions.