Vandling, PA 18413 Frost Dates
Vandling, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 140 days after the last spring frost.
Vandling 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 5 weeks until Vandling's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Vandling's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vandling against the rest of the dataset
About 140 days separate Vandling's last and first frost, putting it 37,109 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 2,004 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18413's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Vandling can differ from the 18413 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Vandling's frost date answer different questions.