Honesdale, PA 18431 Frost Dates
Honesdale, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 259 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 140 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 Honesdale, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Honesdale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Honesdale against the rest of the dataset
Honesdale's growing season runs about 140 days, ranking 37,053 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,982 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18431's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Honesdale's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Honesdale's dates instead of trusting one.