Hawley, PA 18435 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Hawley, PA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/10, about 158 frost-free days later.
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 Hawley, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Hawley before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Hawley's last frost
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hawley compares
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Hawley places 33,050 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,743 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6a and Hawley's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Hawley's dates instead of trusting one.