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Freemansburg, PA 18020 Frost Dates

Freemansburg, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.

Freemansburg sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Freemansburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee

04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Freemansburg against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 184 frost-free days, Freemansburg places 23,548 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 797 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 18020's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Freemansburg's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Freemansburg's dates instead of trusting one.