East Stroudsburg, PA 18302 Frost Dates
18302, near East Stroudsburg, PA: the frost window
Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
East Stroudsburg 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
East Stroudsburg's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around East Stroudsburg's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Stroudsburg against the rest of the dataset
About 154 days separate East Stroudsburg's last and first frost, putting it 34,250 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,861 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18302: local microclimates, on what one yard in East Stroudsburg can differ from the 18302 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and East Stroudsburg's frost date answer different questions.