Ringtown, PA 17967 Frost Dates
Ringtown, 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.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Ringtown, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Ringtown'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.
Ringtown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Ringtown places 27,131 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,235 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17967's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ringtown can differ from the 17967 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Ringtown's frost date answer different questions.