West Hazleton, PA 18239 Frost Dates
West Hazleton, PA: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for West Hazleton, not a forecast for this year.
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.
The actual range around West Hazleton's last frost
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
About 175 days separate West Hazleton's last and first frost, putting it 26,877 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,132 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18239's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and West Hazleton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around West Hazleton's dates instead of trusting one.