Avoca, PA 18641 Frost Dates
Avoca, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Avoca sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Avoca's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Avoca's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Avoca against the rest of the dataset
About 178 days separate Avoca's last and first frost, putting it 25,738 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 923 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18641's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Avoca's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Avoca can differ from the 18641 normal.