Wilkes-Barre, PA 18703 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Wilkes-Barre, PA, ZIP 18703
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 Wilkes-Barre, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Wilkes-Barre 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 Wilkes-Barre'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 Wilkes-Barre compares
About 178 days separate Wilkes-Barre's last and first frost, putting it 25,576 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 879 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Wilkes-Barre's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Wilkes-Barre can differ from the 18703 normal.