Mount Pocono, PA 18346 Frost Dates
18346, near Mount Pocono, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Mount Pocono, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mount Pocono'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.
Why 05/06 isn't a guarantee
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
About 154 days separate Mount Pocono's last and first frost, putting it 34,309 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,878 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18346: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mount Pocono's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mount Pocono can differ from the 18346 normal.