FrostDateCheck

Jeddo, PA 18221 Frost Dates

Jeddo, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.

Jeddo 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

With roughly 8 weeks until Jeddo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Jeddo's last frost

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.

Jeddo against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 184 frost-free days, Jeddo places 23,688 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 817 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 18221's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Jeddo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Jeddo can differ from the 18221 normal.