LeRaysville, PA 18829 Frost Dates
18829, near LeRaysville, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 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 LeRaysville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
LeRaysville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
LeRaysville against the rest of the dataset
About 165 days separate LeRaysville's last and first frost, putting it 30,734 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,550 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18829: local microclimates, on what one yard in LeRaysville can differ from the 18829 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and LeRaysville's frost date answer different questions.