Hop Bottom, PA 18826 Frost Dates
18826, near Hop Bottom, PA: the frost window
Around 05/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 259 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 140 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hop Bottom in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hop Bottom's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Hop Bottom's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hop Bottom against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 140 frost-free days, Hop Bottom places 37,150 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 2,024 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18826: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hop Bottom can differ from the 18826 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Hop Bottom's frost date answer different questions.