Shickshinny, PA 18660 Frost Dates
Shickshinny, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
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 Shickshinny, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Shickshinny's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Shickshinny's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shickshinny against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Shickshinny places 27,145 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,238 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18660's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Shickshinny can differ from the 18660 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Shickshinny's frost date answer different questions.