New Ringgold, PA 17960 Frost Dates
New Ringgold, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
New Ringgold 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 New Ringgold'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.
New Ringgold against the rest of the dataset
New Ringgold's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 27,234 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,263 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17960's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and New Ringgold's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around New Ringgold's dates instead of trusting one.