Duryea, PA 18653 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Duryea, PA?
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 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
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Duryea before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
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 25,698 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 910 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Duryea's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Duryea can differ from the 18653 normal.