Wind Gap, PA 18091 Frost Dates
18091, near Wind Gap, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Wind Gap 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
Wind Gap'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.
Why 04/18 isn't a guarantee
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.
Wind Gap against the rest of the dataset
Wind Gap's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,041 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 583 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18091: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wind Gap can differ from the 18091 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Wind Gap's frost date answer different questions.