Duryea, PA 18642 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Duryea, PA, ZIP 18642
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 178 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 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 Duryea, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Duryea 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 Duryea'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 Duryea compares
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Duryea places 25,697 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 909 of 2,088.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Duryea can differ from the 18642 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Duryea's frost date answer different questions.