Beaver Meadows, PA 18230 Frost Dates
18230, near Beaver Meadows, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. 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 Beaver Meadows 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
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.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
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.
Beaver Meadows against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Beaver Meadows places 27,102 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,221 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18230: local microclimates, on what one yard in Beaver Meadows can differ from the 18230 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Beaver Meadows's frost date answer different questions.