East Stroudsburg, PA 18335 Frost Dates
East Stroudsburg, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 154 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 East Stroudsburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until East Stroudsburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
At roughly 154 frost-free days, East Stroudsburg places 34,252 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,863 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18335's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in East Stroudsburg can differ from the 18335 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and East Stroudsburg's frost date answer different questions.