Stroudsburg, PA 18360 Frost Dates
18360, near Stroudsburg, PA: the frost window
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.
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
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Stroudsburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Stroudsburg places 34,265 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,866 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18360: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Stroudsburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Stroudsburg's dates instead of trusting one.