Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 Frost Dates
Wilkes-Barre, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Wilkes-Barre sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Wilkes-Barre's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wilkes-Barre'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.
Wilkes-Barre against the rest of the dataset
About 178 days separate Wilkes-Barre's last and first frost, putting it 25,577 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 880 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18766's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Wilkes-Barre's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wilkes-Barre's dates instead of trusting one.