Dickson City, PA 18508 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Dickson City, PA, ZIP 18508
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 178 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Dickson City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Dickson City has about 8 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 Dickson City's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Dickson City compares
About 178 days separate Dickson City's last and first frost, putting it 25,687 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 903 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Dickson City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Dickson City can differ from the 18508 normal.