Ringtown, PA 17985 Frost Dates
Ringtown, 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.
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
About 175 days separate Ringtown's last and first frost, putting it 27,132 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,236 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 17985's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ringtown's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ringtown can differ from the 17985 normal.