Waymart, PA 18472 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Waymart, PA, ZIP 18472
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/01, about 140 frost-free days later.
Waymart 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Waymart has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Waymart's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Waymart compares
At roughly 140 frost-free days, Waymart places 37,068 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,990 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Waymart's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Waymart can differ from the 18472 normal.