Mount Pocono, PA 18357 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mount Pocono in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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
About 154 days separate Mount Pocono's last and first frost, putting it 34,315 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,884 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18357's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Mount Pocono's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mount Pocono's dates instead of trusting one.