Wilson, PA 18045 Frost Dates
18045, near Wilson, PA: the frost window
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wilson in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wilson's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Wilson's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wilson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Wilson places 21,953 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 576 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18045: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wilson's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wilson can differ from the 18045 normal.