West Hazleton, PA 18222 Frost Dates
West Hazleton, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts West Hazleton in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 8 weeks until West Hazleton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Hazleton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, West Hazleton places 26,876 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,131 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18222's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around West Hazleton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in West Hazleton can differ from the 18222 normal.