Beaver Meadows, PA 18216 Frost Dates
18216, near Beaver Meadows, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
Beaver Meadows 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
Beaver Meadows'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beaver Meadows against the rest of the dataset
Beaver Meadows's growing season runs about 184 days, ranking 23,602 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 812 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18216: the frost range, on how to read the range around Beaver Meadows's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Beaver Meadows can differ from the 18216 normal.