Minersville, PA 17954 Frost Dates
Minersville, PA: when does the frost end?
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.
Minersville 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Minersville'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
04/30 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.
Minersville against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Minersville's last and first frost, putting it 26,893 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,139 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17954's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Minersville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Minersville can differ from the 17954 normal.