Mount Pocono, PA 18344 Frost Dates
Mount Pocono, PA: when does the frost end?
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.
Mount Pocono sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Mount Pocono's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mount Pocono'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.
Mount Pocono against the rest of the dataset
Mount Pocono's growing season runs about 154 days, ranking 34,308 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,877 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18344's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Mount Pocono can differ from the 18344 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Mount Pocono's frost date answer different questions.