Hawley, PA 18425 Frost Dates
18425, near Hawley, PA: the frost window
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hawley 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
Hawley'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.
The actual range around Hawley's last frost
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hawley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Hawley places 33,048 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,741 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18425: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hawley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hawley can differ from the 18425 normal.